Schema 4.8 - work in progress

[KellyStathis]

Purpose

Draft of Schema 4.8 for review.

Approach

Open Questions and Pre-Merge TODOs

Learning

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

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[anti101]

I’m thrilled that this feature will be included in version 4.8. I would like to know whether there are any plans or ideas to expand the enum list. When it comes to sample registration, it would be helpful to be able to mark samples as destroyed, discarded, or, more generally, as non-reusable.

[KellyStathis]

Hi @anti101, thanks for looking this over! We can consider how to represent this. It would be great if you could submit a suggestion here: https://github.com/datacite/datacite-suggestions/discussions/categories/metadata-schema-suggestions so we can invite community discussion on this topic and better understand the use case. Thank you!