v0.6.8-beta

v0.6.8-beta - Zenodo Metadata Simplification

This beta release focuses on simplifying and aligning release metadata for Zenodo compatibility.

Highlights

• Simplified archival metadata for Zenodo ingestion
• Aligned release versioning across:
  • Git tag
  • GitHub release
  • .zenodo.json
  • CITATION.cff
• Retained core repository citation and authorship information
• Reduced metadata complexity to improve release portability and DOI generation

Metadata Changes

This release prepares the repository for cleaner Zenodo processing by using a more conservative metadata profile.

.zenodo.json

• updated version to 0.6.8-beta
• retained core descriptive metadata
• retained creator and contributor attribution
• retained safe related repository links
• reduced schema risk by avoiding previously problematic metadata patterns

CITATION.cff

• updated version to v0.6.8-beta
• aligned citation metadata with the release tag
• kept citation information focused on the core software record

Goal

The goal of this release is to provide a stable metadata checkpoint for Zenodo archival after multiple earlier beta releases exposed schema and validation constraints.

Context

Previous releases revealed Zenodo validation issues related to:

• unsupported contributor types
• unsupported relation values
• overly complex citation and archival metadata

This release is intended to minimize that risk and restore successful Zenodo processing.

Notes

• This is a beta release
• The focus is metadata compatibility and release infrastructure
• No intentional breaking changes were introduced to the core pipeline functionality