Meta-data for fields and datasources

[borkurdotnet]

In order to improve the discoverability of both built-in models (as fields) and importable datasources, it would be good to create a meta-data object that can be optionally added to fields and datasources. This meta-data object could include things like name, description and tags.

E.g., the active transport index could have an object like:

"metadata" : {
  "name": "Active Transport Index",
  "description": "The active transport index estimates the use and potential of active transport 
  for an LSOA. Bla bla bla ...",
  "tags": ["active transport", "city index", "traffic counts", "cycle lanes", "travel to work"]
}

[sreshu]

Hi! Me and my team mate @miniamisha are working on this issue and would like to propose solution to it as a part of RGSoC'18 application.

[sassalley]

Hi @reshusinghhh that's great! So that you are aware some of the suggestions above (e.g. the metadata tag) have been started here. Developing this further would be excellent!