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Inheritance Principle: Advise against value overloading. Plan to deprecate support for overloading for BIDS 2.0
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The Inheritance Principle defines a systematized set of rules
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to determine which metadata files to associate with which data files.
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Further, because multiple metadata files may apply to an individual data file,
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the Principle defines the *order of precedence* of such metadata files contents.
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the Principle defines the *order of precedence* of such metadata content;
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this is necessary for resolution of conflicts if the same metadata field
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contains different values in different metadata files
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(though it is RECOMMENDED to avoid such overloading).
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### Rules
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