As far as I can tell, user-defined meanings are global i.e. if a meaning is created for use in one project useful, but I also could see this being cumbersome if projects have a lot of custom meanings.
Our use case is we are reading primarily from an external system via a REST API. I have been using a custom plugin to read data from the other system. I like that I can set the schema via a plugin because the other system allows metadata to be queried. That metadata includes data value mappings (e.g. 1 - yes, 0 - no, 2 - not sure, -1 - N/A). I have been trying to come up with a good way of importing those mappings into a project when a dataset is imported. The values-mapping type of user-defined meanings are a very useful concept because they separate storage type from the labels (usually ints to string) and allow someone viewing the data to easily see what number means what.
I imagine us having many projects with different users having access to each project. I could keep using meanings and use prefixes to distinguish them (although I could see the odd case where having the meanings visible to the wrong users might be a problem). I could also import the value mappings as datasets and use joins to fill in the values but this is not very automated and will make the projects quite messy.
Any tips? Anyone else looking into a similar use-case?