Changes in version 2.1.0                        

  - Identifiers table added, allowing trait values to be linked to a
    specific identifiers in an herbarium, museum collection, GenBank, or
    an arboretum. If a data contributor has collected data on the same
    individual plants across multiple datasets, these can also be
    linked.
  - Methods table documents the dataset's Bibtex types, whether the data
    are from a Journal article, Online resource, Unpublished dataset,
    Thesis, etc.
  - Additional entity_type values added to schema, included
    standard_error, standard_deviation.
  - A collection of minor errors have been fixed - including empty
    datasets breaking the build process, and the wrong location name
    column being read in

                        Changes in version 2.0.0                        

  - traits.build paper published in Sep 2024 in Ecological Informatics
    (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102773)
  - Added standard error and standard deviation as value types
  - Moved functions to austraits package and made austraits package a
    dependancy
  - Renamed some of the functions that are now moved to austraits
    package
      - bind_databases <-- build_combine
      - convert_df_to_list <-- util_df_to_list
      - convert_list_to_df1 <-- util_list_to_df1
      - convert_list_to_df2 <-- util_list_to_df2
  - Renamed functions still also assigned their old name, with a
    deprecation warning indicating the new name
  - plot_trait_distribution_beeswarm, trait_pivot_longer and
    trait_pivot_wider had been in both austraits and traits.build
    packages and have now been removed from traits.build
  - Import new austraits function flatten_database (had been suggested
    to be database_create_combined_table)
  - Refactoring of test functions used by dataset_test
  - Added tests using the dataset_test function, so it is checked
    explicitly by traits.build (run on Example datasets)
  - Minor bug fixes
  - Minor updates to ontology (now version 1.0)

                        Changes in version 1.1.0                        

  - Small bugfixes in dataset_test
  - Add Onotology
  - Add Hex sticker

                        Changes in version 1.0.1                        

As described in #134, fixes some minor issues with

  - testing of datasets in dataset_test
  - generating of reports
  - standardising of taxonomic names.

                        Changes in version 1.0.0                        

This is the first major release of the {traits.build} package, providing
a workflow to harmonise trait data from diverse sources. The code was
originally built to support AusTraits (see Falster et al 2021,
doi:10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6,
https://github.com/traitecoevo/autraits.build) and has been generalised
here to support construction of other trait databases. Detailed
instructions are available at

  - package website: https://traitecoevo.github.io/traits.build/
  - package book: https://traitecoevo.github.io/traits.build-book/