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We are pleased to announce that the Wikidata community has awarded a WikidataCon 2019 Award to OpenRefine in the Editing category.

Wikidata editing with OpenRefine was introduced in version 3.0, released in September 2018. It was used since to perform millions of Wikidata edits, either directly from OpenRefine or via QuickStatements.

This award goes to all our users who do the hard work behind these imports, the mentors who organize workshops around the tool or write training material around it, the developers and translators, and the Google News Initiative which funded this feature.

For a 10 minutes introduction to Wikidata editing with OpenRefine, we recommend this video tutorial by Emma Carroll (who deserves special thanks for its clarity):

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From December 12, 2017, to June 7, 2018, we ran our third OpenRefine user survey. Over five months; we received 122 responses. The goal of the study is to keep an accurate and up to date picture of the OpenRefine community. When possible, we compared the 2018 results with our previous survey. You can view the full details of the 2012 and 2014 surveys.

Community you identify with

Librarians and researchers remain the two largest user group with 28.69% and 15.57% of the respondents (which is consistent with the 2014 results). We can notice the Data Science, and Non-Profit organization groups increased since 2014.

How often do you use OpenRefine

Usage frequency remains globally the same since 2012, with fewer respondents using it weekly (34.4% vs. 41% in 2014) and more on a monthly basis (42% today vs. 30% in 2014).

The user base change from daily users to weekly or monthly users. Note that we did not offer the option Less than once a month in the 2012 survey and remove the First time user option after 2012.

For how long have you been using OpenRefine

Users with over two years of experience are now representing 50% of the user base (vs. 38% in 2014). If we compare to the previous year, we see mostly the drop in user with less than six months of experience. While we cannot provide a reason for the decline, we can suppose it is due to the survey methodology, the maturity of the self-service data preparation markets with alternative tools available to the users or because fewer people have been introduced to OpenRefine over the last year.

Note that in the below analysis we included users that never used OpenRefine in the less than six months group (five respondents in 2014, nine in 2018).

How will you rate your skills using OpenRefine

Both in 2012 and 2014 we asked respondents to rate their skills from one to five. One being a novice in Refine and five being a master. This graph confirms the trends that the community is composed of advanced users with the only a third of them rating their skills at 1 or 2 out of 5.

Version of OpenRefine

The majority of the respondents use the latest release of OpenRefine (2.8).

High-level tasks you do with OpenRefine

Usage breakdown remains stable compared to the 2012 survey. 87.77% of the respondents are using OpenRefine to address more than one type of task.

The majority of the respondents use OpenRefine to normalize data (80%) and transform it (75%). We introduced the answer Preparing a dataset before visualization in another application (R, D3, Tableau, Fusion Table ...) in the 2018 survey.

Note: Respondant can select multiple answer. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Do you use plugin or extension?

62.3% of the respondents do not use plugins or extension; 22.13% installed only one plugin and 15% of them installed more than one (with one person installing eight plugins!). The RDF extension is the most popular extension with 14.8% of the respondents using it, followed by the VIB BITS and NER plugins.

Note: Respondent can select multiple answers. We consolidated blank answer with I don't use plugin or extension. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Do you use a reconciliation service?

The two top services used are Wikidata and reconcile-csv. 30.33% of the respondent installed only one reconciliation when 18.03% used more than one (with one person using six services!), and 51.6% of them do not use a reconciliation service.

Note: Respondent can select multiple answers. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Perception of Refine:

The following word clouds are more eye-pleasing than an in-depth analysis.

Why did you choose OpenRefine (Which features)

Alternative tools

Excel, R, and python remain the mains alternative to OpenRefine. Since 2014, we can notice the emergence of other self-service data preparation tools like Trifacta and Talend Data Preparation.

Word used to describe OpenRefine

From the Feature Request and Anything to add

We compiled below suggestions and feature requests submitted via the survey.

Features Request:

  • Improve performance and support larger dataset (11 requests)
  • Improve GREL documentation with more snippets, recipe to help users to write GREL (5 requests).
  • Support a library of GREL expression to save common transform (convert date, names, common regex, geocode data) with a native button to call them (5 requests).
  • Hosted version (4 requests) for collaboration (2 requests).
  • Improvement of the batch mode (3 requests) including details on which clustering process its done with its parameters.
  • Support for Spark, Apache arrow/parquet.
  • Detect the nature of the information based on a pattern (ex: column x contains phone numbers) and check if values in a field are acceptable or exist in locally controlled vocabularies.
  • Store the templates for export in other formats like XML.
  • Improve python support (store functions; auto-indent code).
  • Better manage XML and JSON files.
  • Export result to clipboard.
  • An option to stop the service from the interface.
  • Easier configuration memory allocated to OpenRefine.

GUI

Some suggestions regarding the User Interface:

  • Renaming columns (2 requests) via all or double-clicking on them.
  • Moving columns by drag and drop (2 requests).
  • GREL Editors is too small for advanced GREL.
  • Project organization using a directory structure.
  • Search across all columns in a project.
  • In the history tab, tagging and brief descriptions of the code would help in their discovery.
  • Bigger/adjustable window for RDF skeleton in the RDF extension.

Regarding the reconciliation process:

  • Reconciliation question should be a checkbox, not a toggle.
  • Keep reconciliation data (-> links) when transformations are made across a column, e.g., combining the entries of two columns into one, now reconciliation data gets lost.
  • Easily remove old reconciliation services.

New language or format support

Respondent suggested OpenRefine support more format and languages including:

  • R language.
  • OCR.
  • .mrc/.mrk files.
  • tde format export.

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Recent Progress

OpenRefine 2.8 and 3.0

OpenRefine 3.0 Beta was released on May 27. This is the second release with the support of Google News Initiative (see more details below) and includes several major enhancements including:

  • Wikidata extension to reconcile, enrich and push data from/to Wikidata. See the video tutorial and Wikidata documentation (2.8 and 3.0);
  • Support of Data package metadata standards to describe and package a collection of data (3.0)
  • Improved metadata and tag system to ease project identification from OpenRefine homepage (2.8 and 3.0);
  • Fix the connection with Google Drive to import (3.0);
  • Support of HTTP Header when sending a request (3.0);
  • Create project from a database connection and generate INSERT INTO statement (3.0);
  • Support split multivalued-cells by regex/special characters (2.8);
  • Several improvements of the reconciliation API (2.8) ;
  • Documentation improvement on our wiki;

OpenRefine 3.0 is under beta, and we still have few bugs. If you want to use it please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

Google News Initiative helped to design a new logo for OpenRefine. You may have noticed the new logo on our GitHub project. We made it part of the 3.0 release, and we will update it on the website when the deployment of the new website layout occurs in the coming weeks.

Translations

OpenRefine 3.0 is fully translated into five languages and available in seven more with over 87% coverage! Thanks a lot to all the community members who help to localize OpenRefine in their language! You can help complete existing translations or start a new language via Weblate. See our Translate OpenRefine wiki page for more details.

Translation available:

  • English 100.0% translated
  • Italian 100.0% translated
  • Japanese 100.0% translated
  • French 100.0% translated
  • German 100.0% translated
  • Portuguese (Brazil) 98.1% translated
  • Filipino 97.3% translated
  • Cebuano 97.5% % translated
  • Tagalog 97.2% translated
  • Hungarian 95.3% translated
  • Russian 93.4% translated
  • Chinese 90.0% translated
  • Spanish 89.3% translated
  • Hebrew 87.7% translated
  • Romanian 6.7% translated

Google News Initiative Support

In December 2017, Google News Initiative offered USD 100,000 to support the development of OpenRefine as described in the document Phase 1 and Phase 2+3. So far the funds have been used to finance the release of OpenRefine 2.8 and 3.0 (over 150 issues closed!) and covers expenses to present OpenRefine at the NICAR 18 and IRE 18 conferences.

Governance

The OpenRefine core team is currently managing the funds via a private US company to get off the ground quickly. We know that the private US corporation is not a viable solution in the long term and we are currently under discussion to join Software Freedom Conservancy.

As we begin to use Software Freedom Conservancy as the parent organization of OpenRefine Foundation, we will clarify and formalize our governance model. In the meanwhile, we welcome anyone feedbacks and comments via our GitHub project or our user and developer mailing lists. If you would like to request financing for the development of a feature, the attendance or the organization of an event, please reach out via one of our mailing lists.

You can review our usage of the funds in the following Finance document.

OpenRefine road map

With the remaining funds available from Google News Initiative, we plan to address the tight coupling between the front and back end and set up the OpenRefine Foundation for the next phases. The current implementation presents technical barriers for new contributors to engage with the community and limits the attractiveness of OpenRefine for developers.

Currently, all OpenRefine contributors are working on the project on top of their other academics, professional lives, and family commitments. While the Google funds help the core team to free some extra time to support OpenRefine, part-time involvement is not enough to address coming milestones (after all, we're a very small team!). We plan to hire fellow(s) / contractor(s) to work full time for a couple of months with the community and take the lead on the three following items (we will share more information regarding the fellow/contractor positions).

You can track the next phase in the Github project separation of Front End and Back End.

Prepare Front / Back-end separation

Our goal is to have a full API exposing all OpenRefine operation and commands. This first phase focuses solely on documenting OpenRefine operations and commands available and designing the different API endpoints. The idea is to start small and grow the API over time by allowing for extensibility. In the process, we will take into account existing extensions developed for OpenRefine and support backward compatibility as much as we can.

Datagrid Enhancements

A faster grid technology with virtual DOM will set the foundation for faster scrolling, and interactive elements like drag and drop column moving and resizing, and column and row grouping to better support record mode (see the dedicated GitHub project for UI Improvements. During the implementation, we can remove the custom bits of the frontend that are coupled directly to the back-end. The new datagrid implementation is tracked via #1347.

Data Storage Enhancements

The group is looking at using Apache Arrow to improve the in-memory data model. An alternative, higher performance in-memory / on-disk data storage technology will help increase OpenRefine’s data processing capacity. The implementation of Apache Arrow is tracked in #1469 and can be done independently from the API and datagrid implementation.

Following Phases

Following the completion of the three previous phases, we want to:

  • Implement the new API;
  • Leverage the new API and datagrid to move away from Jquery-based components and using React or Angular;
  • Ensure that we have extendable API points for our most important components;
  • Thanks to the decoupling of the front and back, we can answer the numerous requests from the community to support new data processing engines like Apache Spark or Google DataFlow / DataProc. Those items are tracked in the project Performance Improvements;
  • Keep supporting new features from requested from the community;

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The OpenRefine community haven't been quiet during the Wintes months. Tons of new tutorials have been published in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch and OpenRefine introduced to hundreds of new users at conferences, workshop and webinar. All the details below.

Tutorials

Mapping tip: how to convert and filter KML into a list with OpenRefine http://buff.ly/1OZPvCD by @carlapedret

How to open a rebel CSV file with #OpenRefine http://buff.ly/1XUuwbi by @Carlapedret

Extracting, Augmenting, and Updating Metadata in Fedora 3 and 4 Using a Local OpenRefine from code4lib journal issue 31 by @ruthbrarian

Determining which Salesforce fields are used in a page layout with OpenRefine http://bit.ly/1UsOvyX by @goravseth

Using OpenRefine to control the names in one of our digital collections by @elliot_dw

Preparing “Messy Data” with OpenRefine by @floridastate in Digital Scholars

The 2016 Nicar conference was again the source of great tutorials:

@ostephens recorded two webinar for mashcat:

Come pulire i dati con OpenRefine: le ricette più usate by @nelsonmau

OpenRefine : aplicación de escritorio de código abierto para transformación a otros formatos: https://t.co/4WCHKIqIM1 by @jalonsoarevalo

Plaatsnamen standaardiseren met OpenRefine and ErfGeo http://erfgeo.nl/wat-hoe/openrefine.html by @ErfGeo

Ettore Rizza recorded several excellent video tutorial in French:

Development Update

@reese_terry details the enhancement he made to MarcEdit to export to OpenRefine: http://blog.reeset.net/archives/1873

@cm_harlow shared a new reconciliation service for ISNI: https://github.com/cmh2166/isni-reconcile

French Office for Public Stats (INSEE) releases a SPARQL Connector you can query from OpenRefine: http://sco.lt/7vE6N7

@saherneklawy shared his progress on OpenRefine in R for string / text cleaning. Very promising (and probably stata portable?) https://medium.com/optima-blog/semi-automated-text-cleaning-in-r-68054a9491da

@psychemedia worked on a first attempt at packaging OpenRefine for SandstormIO https://t.co/jIDHsonitM

Winter Events Overview

From Indonesia to Brazil, Belgium and Canada thank you to all the instructors who share their love for OpenRefine!

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Happy new year Refiners! Now is time to look back and see what happen in the community through December. Open your agenda, we already have two vents schedule for 2016

Tutorials

Tony Hirst share his thoughts on the new IBM Data Scientist WorkBench which combine in a single cloud platform OpenRefine, RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks.

Ever wanted to know how to use the template function to export your data in XML format? @ndalyrose explained how she used OpenRefine to create XML Records from a spreadsheet for batch upload to Wikimedia.

The Louisiana Library Network (@louislibraries) published a slide deck on Data Wrangling with OpenRefine including Presentation and Use case made.

@ppival put things in perspective and even if OpenRefine is an awesome tool for data cleaning he found that it may not be the right one for twitter archiving and geolocation.

@MagdMartin added a new knowledge base article to check if value in one record are unique.

Development Update

@AbsolutelyJeff released an update to his #VIAF reconciliation service. You can check it on his Github repository

December Events Overview

The Week Four of the Library Carpentry program took place in London UK and focused on Open Refine and was lead by @ostephens.

In Belgium, @RubenVerborgh presented the Name Entity Extraction at the #LibraryLab.

Finally at the News Impact Summit Dublin, @Bahareh360 introduce OpenRefine to a crowd of journalist.

Coming Events

Two workshop are schedule for 2016:

February 01, 2016 The University of Leicester organized a session on cleaning messy data with OpenRefine for PhD Students and Staff

January 20, 2016 DVS Workshop: OpenRefine - Data Cleaning, Mining, Transformations, and Text Normalization at Duke University

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Once again welcome to the latest edition of our monthly update. Always exciting to update you on all the new developments that have been happening with OpenRefine, and the community as a whole.

This monthly update will showcase some good tutorials that were written by community members, popular events from November, and some events you can look forward to in December.

New Tutorials and Articles

Data Wrangling with OpenRefine presentation and use case made at @louislibraries.

Use cases slide for the @lobidOrg made at the SWIB-15: API and reconciliation service with OpenRefine by @fsteeg.

New Article regarding limitations when splitting and joining multi-valued cells in OpenRefine by @MagdMartin.

We found this story really interesting and how @KatieLaGrone and @WPTVTNIELS used OpenRefine to study DUI crashes.

@importio put together an excellent list of all the best big data tools and how to use them. Of course OpenRefine is one of them!

(In Chinese) OpenRefine Course by tkirby including regex, cluster, facet. Slides and Exercise

Development Update

We received two majors contributions last month. First @k_grons @cora_jr and @roellephant built a new cluster export feature for OpenRefine. Their pull request is under review but you can test it right away from their repository.

@pm5 started a Node.js client library for controlling OpenRefine similar to the existing one in ruby and python.

November Events Recap:

There was a rather interesting event organized by James Baker hashtag #libraraycarpentry, which was a program for introductory software skills. With better software comes better research, aimed at librarians, four sections three-hour introductory workshop held at the City University London Centre over a period of four weeks.

The numbers they got from the event are amazing to see, the event looks like it was very popular and well executed. The concept behind this workshop was to highlight the needs and requirements of library professionals that do not currently exist, detailed in James Bakers final report of the event. If you want greater details and more information i would strongly suggest having a look at the course content shared on GitHub.

Another popular event that happened last month was the Semantic Web In Libraries Conference (SWIB15) in Hamburg. The SWIB conference was aimed to provide substantial information on LOD developments relevant to the library world and to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners. A large number of participants showed up from over 29 different countries really successful meet-up here. Rurik Greenall posted a report on the event itself which is a solid read on his blog.

Students working with OpenRefine at #biodatavis15 recently held in Belgium. Very nice conference here that run a couple of days as well brought via Jan Aerts.

Last month RefinePro organized a new event as part of the Toronto OpenRefine Meet-Up series featuring use case from consultants and civic user. The summary of the Meet-Up can be found here.

Upcoming Events:

OpenRefine, Mes données à la machine at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UBO 08/12/2015

Data Cleaning using OpenRefine in Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia December Monday 7th.

Cleaning & exploring your data with OpenRefine Intersect Australia Tuesday, 8 December 2015 from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM (AEDT) The University of Newcastle, NSW.

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In this October edition of OpenRefine news: we have listed the latest tutorials and documentation published. Looking for events to attends in November? There is five OpenRefine events happening in the coming weeks.

Tutorials and Articles

Find out how to convert XML or JSON into spreadsheets using OpenRefine by @paulbradshaw

@SI_Stellies shared five steps in OpenRefine that can save hours. The publication is related to the war on poverty program in South Africa and how your data set can easily be misinterpreted.

Abdelrahman Hosny wrote a breakdown and analysis as well and show how to clean messy data using OpenRefine,.

Brief tutorial from @church on adding unique identifiers with leading zeroes in OpenRefine. Sometimes you may want to add unique identifiers (UIDs) to your data in OpenRefine (eg. migrating the data into a Database Management System (DBMS) like Access or Filemaker). This is a basic guideline of how to go about doing that step by step.

Good video here shows how Using OpenRefine to process data from the Past Perfect records using the MADE authority.

Publication on how to Identifying potential headings for Authority work using III Sierra, MS Excel and OpenRefine by @LibWorkflowEx

Thad Guidry bloged on how to display HTML content from a URL within OpenRefine,. It works great if you’re doing small reconciling task.

@hpiedcoq gives us a brief outline on how to filter data, by time period, so it’s easier to work with.

Lots of tutorials and articles on regex, OpenRefine, Google Fusion Tables & more from Intersect Australia. Shared via @a_e_lang

In French

OpenRefine et géocodage avec by Christian Quest.

In Chinese

OpenRefine导入CSV文件,数据清理后导出JSON格式 published by HK Zhang.

October Events

Among the several workshop on OpenRefine that happened through October, Rob Davidson presented at #COMBINE15.

At #odcamp Day 2, among session on health care and dataviz, one on using OpenRefine to generate RDF. Thank you Marc Barto. for sharing

Events

Toronto OpenRefine is having a Meet-Up this up and coming month, Nov 17th How OpenRefine can help your next data projects? With user showcase make sure you don’t miss out on this and sign up, guest speakers Bianca Wylie and Heerbod Etemadi already confirmed.

Hands-on intro to data cleaning with OpenRefine workshop Stanford Libraries Workshop is on Tuesday Nov. 17, 2015.

Camperdown University of Sydney: Cleaning & exploring your data with Open Refine on Thursday 19th November.

Metadata tools, working with MarcEdit and OpenRefine Workshop Friday 20th Nov in Birmingham.

How to automate the administration of PPC campaigns using OpenRefine Thursday November 26th Brno, Czech Republic.

OpenRefine Workshop in Gent (Belgium) Friday 4th Dec.

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We are thrilled to share with you some updates from our end, new and exciting developments that have been happening with the community in September, the buzz around the new online OpenRefine Foundation course.

New Course and Article

RefinePro launched the new Online OpenRefine Foundation Course, to assist in the learning of basic data science by providing structure and direction to the students. This course lets you learn the basics of OpenRefine and data manipulation in only 7 hours. There are a total of 23 instructional videos and 7 hands-on labs split into 5 challenging lessons.

Rob Worthington wrote an interesting and content filled article this month, on how to clean up messy data using OpenRefine. Great step by step tutorial to find, remove duplicates, group similar data and lots more for new users.

In his latest tutorial, Tony Hirst shows how to convert Spreadsheet Rows to Text Based Summary Reports Using OpenRefine

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Good article about @OpenRefine and the handling of large amounts of data released, by Alexander Witzigmann.

In Mandarin

Really interesting to see how the community had come a long way and now the reach is on a global scale. Check @tzangms using OpenRefine to show how you can use facets and filters.

##Development Update

Andrey at @Fusepool release of a new OpenRefine binary with an RDF extension, get it here: https://github.com/fusepoolP3/OpenRefine/releases/tag/2.6-beta.2-rdf

The OpenRefine core development team finished to close the issue related to the 2.6 release and prepare a new Release Candidate in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on the developer mailing list for any announcement.

A big thanks to nestorjal rudygt and nachomezzadra for helping with the Spanish translation of OpenRefine. It will be part of the 2.6 release.

Thank you also to mgalushka and jackyq2015 for their merged pull request through September.

September Event

Data Science Training 4 Librarians (DST4L)

In September the Data Science Training 4 Librarians (DST4L) initially organized by Harvard Library moved to Copenhagen at the Technical University of Denmark for a three days sessions. The workshop started with a full day on OpenRefine with Simon Hengchen (@_shengche), Raphael Hubain ((@rHubain)) and Martin Magdinier ([@Martin Magdinier](https://twitter.com/Martin Magdinier)) with support via twitter by the rest of the community.

Great support and help all around, lots on hands on deck. Whenever people required assistance, the community rallied and provided solutions.

@PittLibraries The University of Pittsburgh had a good workshop on how to refine data using @OpenRefine.

Sharing knowledge on @OpenRefine workshop happening in Argentina. Really good to see that no matter where you are, you have someone knowledgable of OpenRefine to the community.

Up Coming Workshop and Events

Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums (LODLAM) services as a borderless network of enthusiasts, technicians, professionals and any number of other people who are interested in or working with Linked Open Data pertaining to galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Currently looking for workshop leaders that can run various conferences throughout 2015-16 teaching LODLAM, if you have time and the knowledge this would help a lot of people.

Introduction to OpenRefine at Central PA Open Source Conference 2015-10-17 by Heather Myers. Data is always a hot topic, this conference is to educate and talk about cleaning this data. Increased demand for this product leads to more and more workshops, which is really good to see.

DVS Workshop: OpenRefine: Data Mining and Transformations, Text Normalization Oct 20, 2015 at Duke University.

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Did you took a break from OpenRefine in August, fear of missing something? No worries, the August update got you covered.

New Tutorials and Articles

Most of August tutorials and new publication revolve around using OpenRefine with third party service, either by call an API or fetching web pages.

Catch up Silk tutorial and video webinar on how to clean and enhance data using APIs, OpenRefine, and Regex

@hpiedcoq have been sharing a list of JSON recipes and how to on github:

On a similart topic, paldhous shared his recipe to geocode list of addresses in Open Refine, using Bing and MapQuest Open APIs

New reconcilitation service for The lobid-organisations service. They provides a web API to a comprehensive dataset of library institutions in Germany. All the details to connect to their reconciliation service is on their github

In Korean Neuro Associates share a complete slideshow introducing OpenRefine main functionality.

In French, clusteriser vos urls avec OpenRefine

Development Update

As we keep closing the latest issue for the 2.6 release, @cm_harlow shared her speaker's notes for #c4lmdc OpenRefine Recon Service workshop

August Events Summary

MSU’s Institute for Digital Archaeology Method & Practice, took place August 18 and 19 and included a session on OpenRefine led by @DEJPett. You can catch up with the workshop task and tutorial shared on texas diplomatic correspondence.

Meanwhile in Argentina, the HackHacker Media party was a great success. Thank you to @jjelosua and @rusosnith for sharing your OpenRefine knowledge!

Coming Workshop and Events

LODLAM is looking for folks to teach #OpenRefine #SPARQL and other tools throughout 2015-16. Sign up here

Come at one of the coming OpenRefine events to sharpe your data cleaning skills:

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It is time to look back at developments who happened in the community through July. Plenty of new tutorials in English, French, German and Czech, and an update on progress on the 2.6 release.

New Tutorials and Articles

English

@OwenStephen wrote a series of 5 articles on working with MARC with text editors, MarcEdit and OpenRefine. a must read for every librarian: A worked example fixing marc data

@cm_harlow have been working on a local python based reconciliation service for geonames to add Geonames information based on geographic subject names. Check the repository and read her step by step walkthrough to run the service.

A new video tutorial has been published, describing the steps to generate a RDF with OpenRefine and the RDF extension.

French

OpenRefine ou comment passer des listes aux applications ABES : illustration avec IdRef et theses.fr

German

Datenanalyse und -optimierung mit OpenRefine Part 1 and Part 2 - By @TANNER_AG

Czech

snadná cesta k získání klíčových dat z našeptávače

Development Update

Through July we received five pull request including four toward the 2.6 release. Those are currently under review and should be merged shortly.

Qi Cui can now apply milestones and labels on the OpenRefine issue. Over 20 new issues have been opened last month and an extra person to help with the triage is more than welcome. Thank you to everyone who took the time to open issue and report bugs.

The wikidata team start setting up a reconciliation service for OpenRefine. This is a work under progress and the API implementation is incomplete. Things may change or stop working at any time. You can join the discussion on the wikimedia discussion list

Workshop and Events

Last month events:

Thanks to all the presenter and OpenRefine advocate who have done presentation at #DHOxSS #OSAD15 #HILT2015 #DatacampUY #SBCWest2015 #c4ln2015

Upcoming events:

Do you want to annouce your next event / OpenRefine session, let us know via twitter: @OpenRefine