OpenRefine July 2021 Review

Happy August! This month, we decided to share the most relevant and helpful OpenRefine July 2021 community announcements, releases, tutorials, videos, and academic publications with you.

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Community Announcements

• Following the Wikimedia Foundation grant, OpenRefine is looking for two junior developers (application are open until July 30):
• Junior Developer for Structured Data on Commons functionalities in OpenRefine
• Junior Developer for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation and batch functionalities
• Scaling OpenRefine with Spark (OpenRefine 4.x) - June 2021 progress report

Releases

• OpenRefine Metadata Extension v1.11.0 by the FAIRDataTeam
• Grefine RDF Extension v.1.3.1 by Stuart Kenny

Tutorials and Videos

• German Tutorials:
• Findbücher mit OpenRefine in Datenbank übernehmen by Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
• Findbuch Index mit OpenRefine aufbereiten by FDMLab@LABW

• English Tutorial:
• Use of OpenRefine in "Views of Louvain: the making of an interactive map"

• English Videos:
• OpenRefine cleaning and Queries with GCP Hadoop Ecosystems
• Library Carpentry Workshop: 3 OpenRefine by the Boston Library Consortium
• Batch Editing Resources in SNAC using OpenRefine

Academic Publications

• Use of OpenRefine in "From Text to Space and Vice Versa: The Travel Accounts of Sir William Gell and Edward Dodwell in Phocis and Boeotia"
• Use of OpenRefine in "‘Big data’ patentometrics for R&D decision-making"
• Use of OpenRefine in "Waste-to-Energy Technologies Towards Circular Economy: a Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis"