OpenRefine October 2021 Review

Happy November to all! This month, we shared the most relevant and helpful OpenRefine October 2021 community announcements, releases, tutorials, videos, and academic publications with you.

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Community Announcements

Check out these new OpenRefine reconciliation services found on https://reconciliation-api.github.io/testbench/:

• The Ontotext Wikidata Location Reconciliation Service

• The Brick reconciliation service, for Brick, a uniform metadata schema for buildings

• The Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service, developed by Eugene Egbe as part of our project to integrate OpenRefine with Wikimedia Commons.

Releases

• New OpenRefine release: v3.5-beta2

Tutorials and Videos

• English Tutorial:
• First steps for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service

• German Tutorials:
• Daten sichten, bereinigen und integrieren mit OpenRefine Arbeitsblatt by Open School Maps
  
• Clustering von Namen mit OpenRefine

• English Videos:
• Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #55 OpenRefine
• Open Refine - Converts JSON response to CSV
  
• Assignment 1: Data cleaning with Openrefine (CMPE 255) Manjiri Kadam
• OpenRefine
• Exploring Your Data With Open Refine
• SNAC OpenRefine Extension

• Portuguese Video:
• Tratando dados de uma planilha utilizando o software OpenRefine

• Swedish Video:
• SPA API find same as Wikipedia and use OpenRefine in Swedish

• Spanish Video:
• [Construyendo Wikidata] Bases de datos y Open Refine

Academic Publications

• Use of OpenRefine in "Análise e identificação de uma rede de colaboração científica: um estudo de caso do workshop em sistemas de informação"
• IE6.com. Cleaning data with OpenRefine
• Use of OpenRefine in Google Keynote "Improving knowledge availability for Buddhist entities through Wikidata"
• Use of OpenRefine in "Cómo gestionar los datos de investigación: buenas prácticas, estándares, herramientas. Prácticas"