Merge pull request #12 from hdmf-dev/prep_1.1.0

Bump version number to 1.1.0

Author: rly

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 # hdmf-common
-Specifications for pre-defined data structures of HDMF
+Specifications for pre-defined data structures of [HDMF](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf)
 
-The HDMF common provides the following data structures:
+The HDMF-common schema provides the following data structures:
 - DynamicTable : a column-based table structure that stores one-to-one and one-to-many relationships
   - VectorData : a data structure for representing a column
   - VectorIndex : a data structure for indexing a VectorData. This is used to store one-to-many relationships
   - ElementIdentifiers : a 1D array for storing primary identifiers for elements of a table
+- DynamicTableRegion : a link from one table to an index or region of another
 - CSRMatrix : a compressed sparse row matrix
+
+The schema also provides the following base data structures:
+- Data : an abstract data type for a dataset
+- Index : an abstract pointer that indexes data values
+- Container : an abstract data type for a generic container storing collections of data and metadata

common/namespace.yaml

@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ namespaces:
     title: Table data types
   - doc: data types for different types of sparse matrices
     source: sparse.yaml
-  version: 1.0.0
+  version: 1.1.0

docs/format_overview.rst

@@ -55,4 +55,17 @@ These objects are generally stored inside a `DynamicTable <sec-DynamicTable>`_,
 onto the rows of the table. The `VectorData <sec-VectorData>`_ object may be n-dimensional, but only the first dimension is ragged.
 
 
+hdmf-common Release Notes
+=========================
 
+1.1.0 (January 3, 2020)
+-----------------------
+
+- The 'colnames' attribute of ``DynamicTable`` changed from data type 'ascii' to 'text'.
+- Improved documentation and type docstrings.
+
+
+1.0.0 (September 26, 2019)
+--------------------------
+
+Initial release.