The field is for categorization within a vocabulary. If that makes no sense (vocab too small or no useful categories) we simply repeat the vocabulary_id. NULLs are not popular in databases, unless it really means “missing datum”.
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The field is for categorization within a vocabulary. If that makes no sense (vocab too small or no useful categories) we simply repeat the vocabulary_id. NULLs are not popular in databases, unless it really means “missing datum”.