Alphasort field entries

[hackartisan]

Descriptive summary

With rdf2 values may come back in different orders. It could be disorienting for users if things jump around on page reload. We should alphasort here https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/hyrax/blob/master/app/renderers/hyrax/renderers/attribute_renderer.rb#L29. and maybe there are other places?

Should this be an option to attribute_to_html?

[agoslen]

SMIG has been discussing open issues labeled metadata. We discussed this issue on 6/22:

• SMIG has recently made the recommendation (for Ordering metadata fields with multiple values #4781) that Creator, Contributor, and Title are the multi-value fields where ordering would matter most; but this order would be context-dependent, rather than purely alphabetical.
• Would it be desirable for alphasort to be a fallback for field ordering, where user-supplied order is not possible?
  • No; group consensus is that alphasort is not necessarily better than the out-of-the-box chaos of RDF nonsorting.
  • Alphasort implies an order and context that is artificial. If this is desirable to a local instance, it could be done locally.

[no-reply]

thanks @agoslen. i think on this basis we should close this ticket out and subsume further discussion into #4781.

speaking to the original suggestion: #5010 provides a very simple implementation of a :sort option for attributes_to_html