csv-metadata-quality/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Fixed

• Missing region check should ignore subregion field, if it exists

Changed

• Use SPDX license data from SPDX themselves instead of spdx-license-list because it is deprecated and outdated
• Require Python 3.9+

[0.6.0] - 2022-09-02

Changed

• Perform fix for "unnecessary" Unicode characters after we try to fix encoding issues with ftfy
• ftfy heuristics to use is_bad() instead of sequence_weirdness()
• ftfy fix_text() to not change “smart quotes” to "ASCII quotes"

Updated

• Python dependencies
• Metadatata field exclude logic

Added

• Ability to drop invalid AGROVOC values with -d when checking AGROVOC values with -a <field.name>
• Ability to add missing UN M.49 regions when both country and region columns are present. Enable with -u (unsafe fixes) for now.

Removed

• Support for reading Excel files (both .xls and .xlsx) as it was completely untested

[0.5.0] - 2021-12-08

Added

• Ability to check for, and fix, "mojibake" characters using ftfy
• Ability to check if the item's title exists in the citation
• Ability to check if an item has countries, but no matching regions (only suggests missing regions if there is a region field in the CSV)

Updated

• Python dependencies

Fixed

• Regular expression to match all citation fields (dc.identifier.citation as well as dcterms.bibliographicCitation) in experimental.correct_language()
• Regular expression to match dc.title and dcterms.title, but ignore dc.title.alternative check.duplicate_items()
• Missing field name in fix.newlines() output

[0.4.7] - 2021-03-17

Changed

• Fixing invalid multi-value separators like | and ||| is no longer class- ified as "unsafe" as I have yet to see a case where this was intentional
• Not user visible, but now checks only print a warning to the screen instead of returning a value and re-writing the DataFrame, which should be faster and use less memory

Added

• Configurable directory for AGROVOC requests cache (to allow running the web version from Google App Engine where we can only write to /tmp)
• Ability to check for duplicate items in the data set (uses a combination of the title, type, and date issued to determine uniqueness)

Removed

• Checks for invalid and unnecessary multi-value separators because now I fix them whenever I see them, so there is no need to have checks for them

Updated

• Run poetry update to update project dependencies

[0.4.6] - 2021-03-11

Added

• Validation of dcterms.license field against SPDX license identifiers

Changed

• Use DCTERMS fields where possible in data/test.csv

Updated

• Run poetry update to update project dependencies

Fixed

• Output for all fixes should be green, because it is good

[0.4.5] - 2021-03-04

Added

• Check dates in dcterms.issued field as well, not just fields that have the word "date" in them

Updated

• Run poetry update to update project dependencies

[0.4.4] - 2021-02-21

Added

• Accept dates formatted in ISO 8601 extended with combined date and time, for example: 2020-08-31T11:04:56Z
• Colorized output: red for errors, yellow for warnings and information, green for changes

Updated

• Run poetry update to update project dependencies

[0.4.3] - 2021-01-26

Changed

• Reformat with black
• Requires Python 3.7+ for pandas 1.2.0

Updated

• Run poetry update
• Expand check/fix for multi-value separators to include metadata with invalid separators at the end, for example "Kenya||Tanzania||"

[0.4.2] - 2020-07-06

Changed

• Add field name to the output for more fixes and checks to help identify where the error is
• Minor optimizations to AGROVOC subject lookup
• Use Poetry instead of Pipenv

Updated

• Update python dependencies to latest versions

[0.4.1] - 2020-01-15

Changed

• Reduce minimum Python version to 3.6 by working around the is_normalized() that only works in Python >= 3.8

[0.4.0] - 2020-01-15

Added

• Unicode normalization (enable with --unsafe-fixes, see README.md)

Updated

• Update python dependencies to latest versions, including numpy 1.18.1, pandas 1.0.0rc0, flake8 3.7.9, pytest 5.3.2, and black 19.10b0
• Regenerate requirements.txt and requirements-dev.txt

Changed

• Use Python 3.8.0 for pipenv
• Use Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" for TravisCI builds
• Test Python 3.8 in TravisCI builds

[0.3.1] - 2019-10-01

Changed

• Replace non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) with space instead of removing them
• Harmonize language of script output when fixing various issues

[0.3.0] - 2019-09-26

Updated

• Update python dependencies to latest versions, including numpy 1.17.2, pandas 0.25.1, pytest 5.1.3, and requests-cache 0.5.2

Added

• csvkit to dev requirements (csvcut etc are useful during development)
• Experimental language validation using the Python langid library (enable with -e, see README.md)

Changed

• Re-formatted code with black and isort

[0.2.2] - 2019-08-27

Changed

• Output of date checks to include column names (helps debugging in case there are multiple date fields)

Added

• Ability to exclude certain fields using --exclude-fields
• Fix for missing space after a comma, ie "Orth,Alan S."

Improved

• AGROVOC lookup code

[0.2.1] - 2019-08-11

Added

• Check for uncommon filename extensions
• Replacement of unneccessary Unicode characters like soft hyphens (U+00AD)

[0.2.0] - 2019-08-09

Added

• Handle Ctrl-C interrupt gracefully
• Make output in suspicious character check more user friendly
• Add pytest-clarity to dev packages for more user friendly pytest output

[0.1.0] - 2019-08-01

Changed

• AGROVOC validation is now turned off by default

Added

• Ability to enable AGROVOC validation on a field-by-field basis using the --agrovoc-fields option
• Option to print the version (--version or -V)