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In EhrmannS/arealDB: Harmonise and Integrate Heterogeneous Areal Data

arealDB 0.9.5

• fix query = ... in normGeometry() to allow full customization. <-> has been reverted as it makes sense to select layers automatically. -> improving documentation.
• change .matchOntology() so that it's possible to match "gappy" hierarchies.

arealDB 0.9.4

• fix example data so that github actions run properly.
• fix documentation to markdown standard.
• refine function adb_querry().

arealDB 0.9.3

• smaller fixes

arealDB 0.9.2

• various fixes to the internal processing of matching tabular to geometric data.
• various fixes to finding matches between harmonized and external geometries.

arealDB 0.9.0 - frontend update

• new functions adb_archive(), adb_backup(), adb_inventory(), adb_metadata(), adb_ontology(), adb_reset(), adb_restore(), adb_schemas() and adb_translations() to access the respective part of an areal database.
• renamed functions makeExmapleDB() to adb_example() and start_arealDB() to adb_init()
• some fixes to the backend as well, where now .csv tables are not used any more, but information are stored in .rds files, as they are not meant to be interacted with. This is now done via the adb_*() functions, which ensure that nothing is modified to a degree that it breaks
• incl. a new feature, where a table that has a missing target column is fixed by matching the child items and then selecting the parent from that as the missing target column
• move the function edit_matches(), that was so far located in the ontologics package to here, as it is primarily used in arealDB and not really a usecase for ontologics

arealDB 0.8.1

• re-enable matching with the ontology when normalising a table, by default

arealDB 0.8.0 - better gazetteer matching

• introduction of the function updateOntology(). This updates the gazetteer after a full spatial match has been carried out, drastically taking complexity out of the functions and guaranteeing proper match between the spatial files and the gazetteer

arealDB 0.7.1

• entirely remove matching via gazetteer for any level below the first level that serves for identifying unique territories (which resulted in a vast simplification of the normGeometry() function).
• include a version = for data series.
• include query = argument also for tables.

arealDB 0.7.0 - streamlined geometry matching

• this include various smaller fixes that should enable a more user-friendly and functional way of specifying geometries and running the normalisation process.

arealDB 0.6.4

• adapt storing of stage1 files so that they are now aggregated into folders with their data series as name.

arealDB 0.6.3

• fixing an example in start_arealBD() so that a gazetteer is not saved in the home-directory of linux users.

arealDB 0.6.2

• revise nromTable() so that also observation in the tables are kept, if they are not successfully matched with a territory.

arealDB 0.6.1

• fix intersection sub-algorithm to make it way faster (depending on the amount of non-intersecting features). This was problematic because st_intersection is currently still very inefficient
• fix a bug where all geometries are treated as if they overlap across the boundaries of several parents, even though only a small set does overlap. This lead to a false reconstruction of IDs.

arealDB 0.6.0 - revise harmonisation with gazetteer/ontology

• various fixes to enable full support for automatically matching territories with a gazetteer and concepts with an ontology
• complete overhaul of matchOntology() making it vastly more efficient and easier to use/debug
• adapt normGeometry() and normTable() to the changes in matchOntology()
• start making use of the spatial/topological information derived from normalizing new geometries (that were not part of the initial geometry data set) by updating the gazetteer accordingly. Only if a concept does not overlap with more than (100 - thresh), is it added as a new harmonized concept. In that case, the new geometry is one that is distinct from the harmonized geometry.

arealDB 0.5.0 - automatching update

• spatial matches are now found automatically and inserted into the ontology.
• matching can be sped up by simplifying geometries.
• spatial hierarchy information of the different administrative levels are now streamlined and provided differently/more explicitly.
• various bug-fixes to handling terms (they are now more explicitly cleaned from white-space and dots in names are removed, e.g. 'St. Gallen' turns to 'St Gallen', which is important for the output column 'gazName', where the administrative levels are concatenated via a '.').
• updates on tests, to be more explicit about the explicit outcome of geometries and the ontology.

arealDB 0.4.6

• revise the whole geometry normalization process to incorporate the new ontology system.

arealDB 0.4.5

• fix how to derive the top-most class.

arealDB 0.4.4

• fix internals to make the code run faster.

arealDB 0.4.3

• rename match_ontology() to matchOntology() and revise it so that it can handle several columns sequentially
• make use of getters of the ontologics package so that (large) gazetteers are not loaded but only the required info are pulled from them
• remove functions get_variable() and select_path(), the former is integrated into matchOntology() and the latter is not relevant anymore.

arealDB 0.4.2

• when using regTable with update = FALSE, the schema now has a more explicit diagnostic message.

arealDB 0.4.1

• rename match_gazetteer to match_ontology because it can also handle ontologies of other variables
• various fixes to make matching as convenient as possible.

arealDB 0.4.0 - ontology update

• instead of using id and translation tables, concepts are from now on handled via the ontologics package.
• functions setVariables and translateTables are discontinued, instead the function match_gazetteer handles matching of concepts.
• the package has been streamlined so that functions regGeometry and regTable don't require a nation = argument anymore, but this can be any other type of "main" polygon.
• new function get_variable to extract concepts from stage2 tables.

arealDB 0.3.9

• bugfix of access-rights management
• adapt to changes in tabshiftr

arealDB 0.3.8

• all countries now stored with capital letters and all geoms are stored as MULTIPOLYGON
• store tables and geometries by default in rds format with csv/gpkg as option
• several minor bug-fixes

arealDB 0.3.7

• streamline translations further by creating the file "target_terms.csv" that contains the translations that are allowed (taken from the respective translation tables or geometries).
• more strict translations by allowing only provided terms that may come from outside of a translation table (such as geometry names that were not known at the time of creating the translation table)

arealDB 0.3.6

• streamline translations to reduce the amount of items that have to be translated (specifically, only translate nations in normTable() that have been subsetted, not the whole list of nations)
• repeat translation of terms as long as some are still (accidentally) missing.
• improve updating of tables (concerning the functions reg*(), setVariables(), translateTerms()).

arealDB 0.3.5

• streamline overwriting of already registered items in the inventory tables.

arealDB 0.3.4

• include 'makeExampleDB', which allows to build an example database at any stage. This is useful for testing, debugging and examplifying an areal database.
• improved documentation due to this change.

arealDB 0.3.3

• refine package documentation
• refine workflow to adapt some minor tweaks.

arealDB 0.3.2

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• initial submission to CRAN

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