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Codebase and initial design documents for pbot client
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Lookup function for repository on specimen page #131

Open doricon opened 1 year ago

doricon commented 1 year ago

‘Repository’ For Version 2.5 it would be nice to lookup institution in the database to minimize people entering the names differently (UC museum of Paleontology vs Univ. of California Museum of Paleontology, UCMP, etc). Not search an external database, but just search what has already been used/entered in PBot before adding something new.

aazaff commented 1 year ago

Concur this is desirable. Not for v2.5, but post-hackathon.

doricon commented 11 months ago

Just leaving note that after hack-a-thon experiences and working with the fossil plant names database that I feel strongly that we need to implement this! (for whatever reason, this is what I was thinking about late last night)

Question- for us to track repositories and do a lookup function for them, would they need to be a node?

Also, I think we do need to use the full name of repository rather than the institutional code, after all.

doricon commented 5 months ago

Just an update that for now, I have changed the field instructions so that users are asked to enter the full name of the repository (not the code). Still wanting a lookup tool or similar at some point.