Metadata: allow multiples of the same child within a single compound/parent

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Eleni Castro (@posixeleni)
Original Redmine Issue: 3792, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3792
Original Date: 2014-03-28
Original Assignee: Eleni Castro

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Could be used for compound metadata fields that require multiples of a certain child (e.g., author allow for more than (1) affiliation).

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Eleni Castro (@posixeleni)
Original Date: 2014-04-21T05:56:51Z

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As of now there is no immediate business case to support this but can foresee that this may need to be supported in the future (e.g., more than one Affiliation per Author, etc)

[eaquigley]

@posixeleni what's the status of this? do we still need this feature?

[posixeleni]

@eaquigley we will definitely need this feature if we want to allow authors to list multiple affiliations or possibly if someone selects "Other" in a controlled vocabulary list and we want to allow them to be able to enter multiple "Others" as free-text.

[posixeleni]

This will need to be reviewed by @scolapasta to see how we can implement in 4.0 but as soon as this feature is enabled I can go in and modify the tsv files where/if needed.

[scolapasta]

@posixeleni can we defer any thought of this to post 4.0?

[posixeleni]

@scolapasta We can defer to post 4.0 but this is something that we definitely need to keep on our roadmap.

[posixeleni]

This is a feature that we now have a business case for: F1000 Research has authors with multiple affiliations (sometimes up to 6) and they will be sending us some examples shortly.

[posixeleni]

Example from F1000Research:

most of the articles have multiple affiliations. Here is an example of a figshare entry with multiple affiliations: http://f1000research.com/articles/4-109/v1. If there was an autofill option for previously entered affiliations, that would go a long way to making the process quicker.

[pdurbin]

Another request for letting authors have multiple affiliations (and a nice reply by @jggautier): https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/qgaXlVuI1xU/m/bTI9o-1DBAAJ

[pdurbin]

Another request for letting authors have multiple affiliations (and other things), this time by @philippconzett: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/EkxFrQ8j63M/m/xcYgGpyEBgAJ

[DS-INRAE]

A duplicate issue has been created :

• Multiple value in a child field #10674

However it is much more documented with screenshots. Should we close this one in favor of this new one and re add the links in comment ?

[cmbz]

To focus on the most important features and bugs, we are closing issues created before 2020 (version 5.0) that are not new feature requests with the label 'Type: Feature'.

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