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Allow existing entries to be updated with new values #5

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mmmatthew opened this issue Jun 26, 2018 · 0 comments
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Allow existing entries to be updated with new values #5

mmmatthew opened this issue Jun 26, 2018 · 0 comments
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Must be solved before #2

Currently, data is only carried into wikidata if the entry does not already have a value for the corresponding property (exception: catalog code). However, it should be possible that if the data to import is updated, these changes can be imported automatically.

Option 1: Check who is the author of the change and allow automatic overwrite if the author is the bot
Option 2: Associate each property value with a reference, and use the reference to decide whether to update: if the reference is an older version of the WVZ dataset, then overwrite and update reference.

Option 2 is probably the better way to go. It introduces the challenge of having, for a given property, multiple values from different sources. Problem: for our web application, which value do we show?

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