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Add creator browse list to sidebar #19

Closed bufordrat closed 9 months ago

bufordrat commented 11 months ago

Since we already have all the infrastructure to display a list of creator browses set up, it would be nice to put a link to that list in the right-hand sidebar, next to the list of contributor browses.

vitorgomateus commented 11 months ago

The difference between creator and contributor is a little vague, so I'd suggest bundling both in one.

bufordrat commented 11 months ago

This might be a big discussion, given that the distinction runs pretty deep in our data model. That is, (I think?) we display contributors and creators separately on the item page, and the triples also store those two pieces of information separately for each series/item/etc.

bufordrat commented 11 months ago

I definitely agree that the terminology is confusing. I think the idea is that a creator would be e.g. the person who made the recording, whereas a contributor could be e.g. someone who was recorded during a recording. Is that right @johnjung?

c-blair commented 11 months ago

That's right, but then there was a big discussion about privileging contributor over creator, so Vitor's original question makes sense to me. I'll let John opine further.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:07:41AM -0700, Matt Teichman wrote:

I definitely agree that the terminology is confusing. I think the idea is that a creator would be e.g. the person who made the recording, whereas a contributor could be e.g. someone who was recorded during a recording. Is that right @johnjung?

johnjung commented 11 months ago

@bufordrat , that's right about creators and contributors. The FileMaker database has a field for "role" that we use to determine whether someone gets classified as a creator or contributor in the triplestore.

Contributor roles: 'consultant', 'participant', 'performer', 'singer', 'speaker'

Creator roles: 'author', 'compiler', 'depositor', 'editor', 'interviewer', 'recorder', 'researcher', 'translator'

Because the distinction between the two is important to our stakeholders, my feeling is that we should not do a combined contributor/creator browse. Personally I think separate browses for each make sense.

I would add both metadata fields to search results, series pages, and item pages too- I think the reason we're not doing this right now is because of the original Figma mockups, but it seems random why we use one or the other where we do.

We can talk through this more in our meeting. I'm going to send @c-blair a message to see if he wants to join and talk through this too.

vitorgomateus commented 9 months ago

Issue is resolved.