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Add util.ckan, including a Client for access to CKAN instances (including the TDC instances); proxy classes for CKAN objects including Package, Resource, and mode (PR #35).
Add org.ckan.PROD and org.ckan.DEV instances of ckan.Client (PR #35).
Improve documentation (PR #40).

Add iso (International Organization for Standardization (ISO)) module (PR #29).
Add itdp (Institute for Transport & Development Policy (ITDP)) module (PR #28).
Add tools for SDMX-CSV and CSV data input (PR #29).
- util.sdmx.read_csv() and CSVAdapter to read SDMX-CSV and to adapt non-standard CSV to SDMX-CSV, respectively.
- tdc check CLI to confirm that data can be read in this way.
- New HOWTO Format TDC-compliant data in CSV or SDMX-CSV to explain usage of these features.
Add interactive tdc edit command-line interface for authoring SDMX data structures (PR #28, PR #31).
- New HOWTO HOWTO to explain usage of these features.
Add METHOD to the TDC metadata structure (PR #28) via org.metadata.CONCEPTS.
Improve processing of adb ATO metadata (PR #28).
- Convert attributes from ATO data sets to TDC metadata reports.
- Extract per-series data sources for sheets where the overall source attribute is “Country Official Statistics”.
transport_data supports Python 3.13 (PR #32).
Use dsss.store classes for SDMX artefact storage (PR #27).
- transport_data.store.UnionStore is now a lightweight subclass of dsss.store.UnionStore.
- Add Config.registry_remote_url.

Add tools and data for the TUEWAS project (PR #21).
- Add metadata.spreadsheet, metadata.report submodules; expand metadata.
- Add tdc org read, tdc org summarize, tdc org tuewas CLI commands.
Add report.Report, a base class for generating ‘reports’ (documents derived from SDMX (meta)data) and supporting code in util.docutils, util.jinja2 (PR #21).
Adopt pluggy for plug-in hooks and implementations (PR #21); use the hooks.get_agencies() hook across existing modules.
Add tdc_cli(), test_data_path() test fixtures (PR #21).
Python 3.8 support is dropped (PR #21), as it has reached end-of-life.
Add ipcc (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)) module (#15, PR #21).
Add Data standards and Roadmap documentation pages (PR #9).
Adjust adb for changes in data format in the 2024-05-20 edition of the ATO National Database (PR #20, #18). Document the current file format that the code supports.

Add oica (International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers) module (PR #13).
Improve store to handle both local and registry storage; expand documentation (PR #11).
Add iamc.variable_cl_for_dsd(); expand documentation of IAM data (PR #10).
transport_data supports and is tested on Python 3.8 through 3.12 (PR #8).

Initial release