OpenRefine January 2021 Review

2021 starts big with the release of the new user documentation for OpenRefine. It took over six months of hard work to migrate the documentation from GitHub wiki to Docusaurus. It was also the opportunity to update the content. 

We also listed below new tutorials and videos published about OpenRefine through January along with the update of the NER and RDF extensions. 

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OpenRefine: Create an empty column

 Sometimes you just need to add a new empty column to your OpenRefine project. The process is straight forward as we show in this video tutorial.

• From any existing column select the option Edit column and then Add a column based on this column ... 
• By default, the GREL formula repeat the value from the column you selected
• Just replace the value with two quotes like this ""  to create an empty string. You can add any text between the quotes. OpenRefine will add it for all the rows selected by your facet.
• Give your new column and name and click OK
• and you are done! 

We made a quick video tutorial to show you the steps: