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[feat]: display lineage for datasets

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
fastapi, python
Domain
data, frontend

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the viewer's existing dataset and version display, then determine how Lance dataset branches, tags, and versions are exposed. Done means users can navigate the lineage and inspect the selected version's schema, metadata, or data.

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Description

enhancement
Summary

Hi team, lance is well-known for its dataset management, including lineage for dataset.
So I'm wondering if we could to display dataset lineage in the viewer as well?

For example, when users provide a dataset, the whole lineage of the dataset is shown on the screen (with tag / branching / version aside), so users could click in the a detailed "version" and check the schema, metadata, or data for the selected version.

Use case

In production usage, we use a base lance dataset as the foundation, and branch out different versions for experimentation; having a lineage display helps our user to understand the dataset better.

Proposed approach

No response

Design constraint check
  • I have read CONTRIBUTING.md and this proposal does not conflict with the load-bearing design constraints.
Dominant language
Python
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