Allow vocabs used to have non-unique titles, and to supply alternative titles

[wu-lee]

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[ColmDC]

Just confirming that this is needed to support text search when we have fields in the data with vocabs that have the same titles, but are in fact different

it is also needed where combined vocabs are use like when combining Primary and Secondary Activities in a filter option.

[wu-lee]

Yes, that's correct.

Also, an alternative title would also be needed if a vocabulary's default title was not appropriate in the particular context of a map, even though the vocabulary terms were. For example, what the ICA calls "Typology" is called "Base Membership Type" in the ESSGLOBAL definitions.

[ColmDC]

How much effort is required to finish supporting this?

[wu-lee]

I think it depends on - or is closely related to #199

My best idea of implementing it is to allow vocabs to be used as generic and localised ID-naming tables, then having titles for fields and vocabs to be looked up from them. It would need inventing a way to decide which vocab to look up in. Perhaps there could be a convention that a certain vocab is always used to look up vocab and/or field names, and fall-back is the names (or identifiers) used now?

The problem with estimation of effort, is that part of of the effort is coming up with a workable scheme, which I think boils down to taking the time to do an experiment. So it seems more like a question of, how much time do we want to allocate to an experiment, and when do we start?

Maybe allocating half or a whole day's worth would get some answers, if not solve everything.