Re-evaluate metadata blocks, metadata display, help, and metadata sources #6030
Description
As Dataverse expands to new disciplines and as we seek new ways to ensure high quality metadata, we should take an opportunity to discuss where we can make some improvements. We’ve had good feedback from the community across several issues (#5938, #6003, #3622, #6000, #4772, #350, #2603, #4282), which I’ve tried to capture as use cases below.
- I want depositors to select subjects more appropriate to the discipline(s) the dataverse installation supports
- I want depositors to select contributor types more appropriate to the disciplines the dataverse installation supports
- I want depositors to select from a list of people provided by LDAP (or another system) for fields such as author, contributor, producer
- I want depositors to be presented with the most appropriate experience (dropdown, checkbox, autocomplete) for selecting/populating metadata values
- I want depositors to be able to select from metadata options provided by an API instead of from hard coded values
- I want depositors to be able to select multiple fields for certain metadata elements
This issue will focus on proposing a solution to cover as many of these use cases as possible (and others that I'm sure I'm missing) instead of trying to push forward individual issues.