diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
index bb93c8a93..b7de0e021 100644
--- a/.flake8
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 [flake8]
 max-line-length=79
-exclude =
-    scripts/editProperties.py
diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate_and_release.yml b/.github/workflows/validate_and_release.yml
index 8d7632e3d..f3b713eaa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate_and_release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate_and_release.yml
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ jobs:
         mv reproschema.jsonld releases/${{ inputs.version }}/reproschema.jsonld
         mv reproschema.nt releases/${{ inputs.version }}/reproschema.nt
         mv reproschema.ttl releases/${{ inputs.version }}/reproschema.ttl
-    #     python scripts/makeRelease.py ${{ inputs.version }}
 
     -   name: Open pull requests to add files
         uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6
diff --git a/scripts/editProperties.py b/scripts/editProperties.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b6f1ce921..000000000
--- a/scripts/editProperties.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-
-import rdflib as rl
-from pytablewriter import MarkdownTableWriter
-
-AUTO_LINE = "<!-- AUTOGENERATED - DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -->"
-
-
-def edit_properties(version):
-    targetClasses = [
-        "Protocol",
-        "Activity",
-        "Field",
-        "AdditionalProperty",
-        "OverrideProperty",
-        "UnitOption",
-        "ResponseOption",
-        "Choice",
-        "ComputeSpecification",
-        "MessageSpecification",
-        "AdditionalNoteObj",
-        "ResponseActivity",
-        "Response",
-        "Participant",
-        "SoftwareAgent",
-    ]
-
-    with open("docs/schema.md") as fp:
-        doc = fp.readlines()
-        for idx, line in enumerate(doc):
-            if line.startswith(AUTO_LINE):
-                break
-        doc = doc[:idx]
-    doc.append(AUTO_LINE)
-    doc.append(
-        """\n<!-- This section is generated by the Python script editProperties.py.
-The script uses a released version of the schema to generate the properties. To
-use this script first call:
-python scripts/makeRelease.py <version>
-python scripts/editProperties.py <version>
--->
-"""
-    )
-
-    # read all the terms
-    g = rl.Graph()
-    g.parse(
-        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/main/data/releases/9.0/schema.ttl",
-        format="turtle",
-    )
-    g.parse(f"releases/{version}/reproschema.ttl", format="turtle")
-    g.parse(f"releases/{version}/reproschema-shacl.ttl", format="turtle")
-
-    query = """PREFIX sh: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#>
-SELECT ?obj ?prop ?desc ?objdesc
-WHERE {
-   ?obj1 a sh:NodeShape;
-       sh:property [ sh:path ?prop ];
-       sh:targetClass ?obj .
-   OPTIONAL { ?prop rdfs:comment ?desc .}
-   OPTIONAL { ?obj rdfs:comment ?objdesc . }
-}
-"""
-    results = list(g.query(query))
-
-    objects = {k: {} for k in targetClasses}
-    for res in results:
-        s = g.compute_qname(res[0])
-        p = g.compute_qname(res[1])
-        if s[2] not in objects:
-            raise ValueError(f"Unknown class: {s[2]}. Source: {res}")
-        objects[s[2]][p] = str(res[2])
-        objects[s[2]]["klass_desc"] = str(res[3])
-    for klass, props in objects.items():
-        writer = MarkdownTableWriter()
-        writer.table_name = (
-            f"{klass}\n"
-            f"{props['klass_desc']}\n\n"
-            f"**URI:** [http://schema.repronim.org/{klass}](http://schema.repronim.org/{klass})\n"
-        )
-        writer.headers = ["Name", "Description", "URI"]
-        writer.value_matrix = []
-        del props["klass_desc"]
-        for val, comment in sorted(props.items()):
-            property = [
-                val[2],
-                comment,
-                f"[{val[1]}{val[2]}]({val[1]}{val[2]})",
-            ]
-            writer.value_matrix.append(property)
-        writer.margin = 1  # add a whitespace for both sides of each cell
-        doc.append("\n")
-        doc.append("##" + writer.dumps())
-    with open("docs/30_schema.md", "wt") as fp:
-        fp.writelines(doc)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
-        version = "master"
-    else:
-        version = sys.argv[1]
-    print(f"Generating classes and properties for version: {version}")
-    edit_properties(version)
diff --git a/scripts/makeRelease.py b/scripts/makeRelease.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f933d973a..000000000
--- a/scripts/makeRelease.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-import json
-import os
-import sys
-from shutil import copyfile
-
-import rdflib as rl
-from pyld import jsonld
-
-from reproschema.jsonldutils import to_newformat
-
-
-def create_release(version):
-    # read all the terms
-    terms = []
-    for root, _, files in os.walk("terms"):
-        for name in files:
-            terms.extend(
-                json.loads(to_newformat(os.path.join(root, name), "jsonld"))
-            )
-
-    kwargs = {"algorithm": "URDNA2015", "format": "application/n-quads"}
-    data = jsonld.normalize(terms, kwargs)
-
-    os.makedirs(f"releases/{version}", exist_ok=True)
-    copyfile("contexts/base", f"releases/{version}/base")
-    copyfile("contexts/generic", f"releases/{version}/generic")
-    with open(f"releases/{version}/base") as fp:
-        base_context = json.load(fp)
-    compacted = jsonld.compact(terms, ctx=base_context)
-
-    g = rl.Graph()
-    for key, val in base_context["@context"].items():
-        if not key.startswith("@"):
-            g.namespace_manager.bind(key, val)
-    g.parse(data=data, format="nt")
-
-    # write n-triples and turtle files
-    with open(f"releases/{version}/reproschema.jsonld", "w") as fp:
-        json.dump(compacted, fp, indent=2)
-    with open(f"releases/{version}/reproschema.nt", "w") as fp:
-        fp.write(data)
-    with open(f"releases/{version}/reproschema.ttl", "w") as fp:
-        fp.write(g.serialize(format="turtle"))
-
-    g1 = rl.Graph()
-    g1.parse("validation/reproschema-shacl.ttl", format="turtle")
-    with open(f"releases/{version}/reproschema-shacl.ttl", "w") as fp:
-        fp.write(g1.serialize(format="turtle"))
-
-    return g
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
-        version = "master"
-    else:
-        version = sys.argv[1]
-    print(f"Generating release for version: {version}")
-    create_release(version)