April was a busy month for the OpenRefine community with new reconciliation services and plugin updates! Do not forget to subscribe to our newsletter to get our monthly update right in your mailbox.
Community Annoucement
- Release of v1.2.0 of the RDF Extension for OpenRefine 3.3
- OpenRefine is hiring a technical writer to help write a reference manual using Docusaurus. This is a six months contract.
- Do you want to test the latest feature or check if a bug is fixed for OpenRefine? Nightly builds are now available on a separate repository
Release and contributions:
- The Reconciliation service test bench lists available reconciliation services known to Wikidata and indicates which features of the reconciliation API they support.
- Bloodhound reconciliation endpoint to help reconcile the names of natural history specimen collectors
Tutorials:
- English Tutorials:
- Quinn and Lee Clean Up Ghost Cat Data-Hairballs
- MarcEdit Shelter-In-Place Webinar 4: Merging, Clustering, and Integrations
- GND reconciliation for OpenRefine
- Clean. Migrate. Validate. Enhance. Processing Archival Metadata with Open Refine
- Museum collections as data: comparing collection stats across four datasets in four days
- English Video:
- French Tutorial: Récupérer des fichiers pdf en masse sur Archive.org
- Dutch Tutorial: Handleiding OpenRefine / ErfGeoProxy
- Spanish Video and Tutorial:
- By the Wikimedia Argentina team: Trabajamos con OpenRefine.
- Data Mining, Bibliomining y OpenRefine
- Portuguese Video: