Revise dataset structure and content
Closes several open issues:
-
#10 (closed) by updating
references
with canonical URLs -
#15 (closed) by renaming tables to 'glaciers', 'bands', and 'points', using consistent id field names (e.g.
band.glacier_id
->glacier.id
), and removing fields replicated across tables -
#16 (closed) by renaming
maximum_thickness
tomax_thickness
- #17 (closed) by dropping the country column
-
#24 (closed) by adding a fourth
survey
table, making it possible to add point-only data with no records inglacier
-
#26 (closed) by adding the submission to a child directory in the new
submissions/
directory
And introduces many other changes, including:
- Replacing cryptic codes with more human-readable codes
- Using lowercase field names
- Using full, unicode glacier names
- Add popular but missing glacier database and interpolation codes
- Split
survey_method
intomethod
andplatform
- Split fuzzy date fields into date ranges using two date fields using ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd)