OpenRefine April 2022 Review

Happy May! For this month, we decided to share the most relevant and helpful OpenRefine April 2022 releases, tutorials, videos, and academic publications with you. Read on to discover them!

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Community Announcements

• Survey of media workflows for OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons users

• OpenRefine's two-yearly user survey will run for approximately a month. We have the survey in three languages this year: English, Spanish and Dutch.
  

Releases

• Providing more flexibility for researchers in CloudStor SWAN by supporting OpenRefine #JupyterNotebooks

• OpenRefine Reconciliation Framework in Python and Flask

• RDF Transform is an extension for OpenRefine to transform data into RDF formats.
• RDF Transform 2.0.4-beta

• CSV Reconcile Release bygitonthescene v0.3.1

• OpenRefine File Extension: to access file hosted on an hosted instance of OpenRefine

• OpenRefine Authenticator: to add authentication protocols for HTTP/HTTPS request.
  
  

Tutorials and Videos

• German Tutorials:
• Integration externer Normdatenquellen für Abgleich und Anreicherung lokaler Daten in OpenRefine
• OpenRefine Workshop für Einsteiger veröffentlicht

• English Tutorial:
• Getting started with OpenRefine – Digital Humanities 201

• English Videos:
• Waiting list data openrefine reconciliation
• SNAC Cooperative: Community and Technology Update
• #GIJC21 - Tools to Clean Data
• Programmatic Metadata Enhancement with OpenRefine DEGS 2022
• OpenRefine Authenticator Demo
• The YouTube channel abc uploaded a series of videos on OpenRefine

• Italian Video:
• Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote, Openrefine nelle attività di ricerca e nei flussi di lavoro in biblioteca

• Spanish Video:
• Introducción a OpenRefine Limpieza de datos previo al análisis (18 de marzo de 2022)

Academic Publications

• Mention of OpenRefine in "Metadata Cleanup for the UBC Institute of Fisheries Field Records Collection"

• Use of OpenRefine in "* Interactive Earthquake Visualization with Open Data"

• Use of OpenRefine in "Metadata Cleanup for the Alma Mater Society Image Collection"