Frontend Issue — Enhanced Keywords Input & Selection

🎯 Goal

Improve the Keywords input for samples in SEPIA to:

• Reduce invalid, controversial, or “nonsense” entries.

• Prefill suggested keywords based on sample type schemas in JSON.

• Allow existing vocabularies (BattINFO, voc4cat, terminology service) for selection.

• Provide two inputs:

  1. Existing terms from vocabulary
  2. Free-entry field for new terms (with validation/curation suggestions)

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🧩 Implementation Details

UI Behavior

• 1. Existing Terms Input

  • Dropdown / autocomplete showing terms from selected vocabularies.
  • Search and filter across multiple vocabularies dynamically as user types.
  • Allow choosing the most domain-appropriate term (e.g., “Temperature” in astrophysics vs catalysis).

• 2. Free Entry Input

  • Allow users to enter new keywords not in vocabularies.
  • Implement soft validation or warnings for potentially ambiguous terms.

• 3. Prefill Suggestions

  • Based on sample type JSON schema, suggest relevant keywords automatically.
  • User can select or deselect these suggestions.

• 4. Curation / Validation

  • Optional: mark controversial or multi-definition terms with a warning.
  • Provide tooltip or guidance for proper selection.

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🧪 Testing

• Keywords dropdown shows correct terms from vocabularies.
• Autocomplete updates dynamically as user types.
• Prefilled suggestions from sample type schema appear correctly.
• Free entry input allows valid entries but flags suspicious terms.
• Selected terms are submitted correctly with sample creation/update.

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🏷️ Labels

frontend feature keywords sample priority::medium