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As a user, I would like controlled vocabularies in Figgy Ephemera to function like authorities in the online catalog . #927

Open kelea99 opened 3 years ago

kelea99 commented 3 years ago

If I have a controlled vocabulary in a geo-subject, for example, like India--Gujarat, I would like to be able to select EITHER India or Gujarat from the link in DPUL. Currently the only way to have both items searchable via a link is to have 2 separate entries in figgy: India--Gujarat (This would be the ideal construct, if we move forward in this way) India

This use case has come up with Ellen and David M., in reference to the SAE materials. However, it would benefit all of the ephemera, if selectors would like to be more granular and include state-level information for items, where possible. This would also clean up the controlled vocabs for specific area studies using ephemera projects.

Sample of what is envisioned (from online catalog): Ethnology—India—Nāgāland [Browse] See: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/12245799

tpendragon commented 3 years ago

Is this a DPUL use case or a figgy use case?

kelea99 commented 3 years ago

I believe it should be a primary figgy use case, since it affects how the controlled vocabularies will be entered by metadata creators and how they will be used within figgy going forward. secondary use case will be how users interact with them in DPUL.

kelea99 commented 3 years ago

basically it will have an impact on how we process things on the figgy side for SAE.

tpendragon commented 3 years ago

This is a discovery issue for DPUL.

hackartisan commented 3 years ago

This came up in the recent ephemera curators meeting. The data entered in figgy is in a different format than the data in the catalog. In figgy you would see "Gujarat (India)" as a geographic subject. The example given from the catalog is a 650 subject term in LCSH format, with the dashes. So these examples aren't really analogous in either format or field type.

Notes from that meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZO6ghfgL5VbrSUFI7Wy8zAIsy5V2s_UMQMTaLE9z0j8/edit#

The geo subjects are coming from the Geo Names vocabulary. More discussion needed to specify this ticket.