Somewhat related to #5989

Related:

• Metadata: Support radio buttons for Yes / No responses #2727
• Re-evaluate metadata blocks, metadata display, help, and metadata sources #6030
• Unresolved feedback from community review of Citation metadata fields #8467

Hi @pdurbin
Do you have any news on implementing this feature?
It is something we want to use in a custom metadata block for our forthcoming Dataverse, so users can tick the box/field, if they regard the dataset relevant for submission to National Archives repository.

@Asbjoedt no news. Let me mention @scolapasta and @cmbz to let them know you (and others) are interested.

Is this something you (or others) might want to create pull request for? That often helps move things along. 😄

I agree it would be a nice feature.

@Asbjoedt also, in the past I've encouraged installations to maintain a project/board of issues they care about. A great current example is https://github.com/orgs/IQSS/projects/15 maintained mostly by @DS-INRA.

If you'd like a board like this, please open an issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-installations using the "request a project board" template.

@jggautier Any connection here with the NIH GREI metadata recommendations?

Hmm, yeah having the option to use a checkbox might help depositors provide information that those recommendations ask for.

@pdurbin I can try to look at the source code. I know some Java and strictly speaking this is about implementing the Java boolean data type as a Dataverse data type for metadata blocks, if you agree on this approach?

I've found the file "DatasetFieldType", may you provide me with a list of names of other files that are necessary to change to implement the boolean?

I can't promise, I can create a PR for this, but I may take a look.
I have forked the repo and created a branch, is this sufficient for you to receive a PR?

@Asbjoedt great! For details on what files to edit (I'd need to look) maybe you can start a thread in #dev at https://chat.dataverse.org and we can figure it out together.

@Asbjoedt Please comment here if you decide to make a PR. After discussion with @jggautier this issue appears to be aligned with our NIH GREI objectives.

Here's the conversation so far: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/379673-dev/topic/The.20boolean/near/405225599

To summarize, I agree with @poikilotherm that his commit at https://jugit.fz-juelich.de/fdm/dev/dataverse/-/commit/d4aece03aebcf9c2237aa7842c17c0d96af6a79a is a good one to study.