confirm whether duplicate keywords should break validation

[gbinal]

It looks like right now, our validators raise an error if there are duplicate keywords for a record.

What do folks think - does that make sense? If so, we can add language that clarifies that to /schema, but if not, we should relax the validator.

[mhogeweg]

I would not raise an error just because a keyword was repeated. happens a lot in our experience with 1,000,000+ spatial metadata records.

[philipashlock]

Perhaps we can start to separate things like this into more of a "warning" or feedback to help improve metadata quality rather than a blocking validation error.

[mhogeweg]

👍

[haleyvandyck]

Thanks for bringing this up--sounds like the right approach to me to both relax the validator and clarify language in /schema as well. Would you mind doing a pull request for this @gbinal?

[gbinal]

Done.

Closing this issue.