Instrument Status

[kitchenprinzessin3880]

At present the schema captures the operation status of an instrument through dates (commissioned and decommissioned). Suggest including an explicit metadata property to represent instrument status (active, inactive).
the reason is that often we dont have the decommissioned date, so the instrument operator leaves the field blank.

[RKrahl]

I guess it should have a controlled list of values. You already suggested Active and InActive. I guess we would at least also need Unknown. Then the question is whether we want to distinguish between temporarily and definitely inactive.

Another question would be the obligation (mandatory, recommended, optional) of that property. I suggest it should not be mandatory, as I assume many organization would prefer not to maintain the status information in the PID record.

[kitchenprinzessin3880]

+1 recommended property

[RKrahl]

Or even optional. But this will be subject to discussion.