Transmog by University of Virginia Libraries Transmog is a simple web application to aid in the conversion of Word documents into more meaningfully structured XML documents. Originally designed to convert archival finding aids into EAD XML files, this application now supports arbitrary profiles defining the structure and rules for for the generated XML. https://github.com/uvalib/transmog
By John Holmberg Runsten This tutorial explains how OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/) together with the oaDOI API (https://oadoi.org/) from Impactstory can be used to collect Open Access information. aoDOI collects open access evidence from DOAJ, crossref, BASE, and pmicd. This can be useful when trying to identify OA articles published by one’s institution. In this tutorial records…
Describing Web Archives Automating Access with APIs and ArchivesSpace By Gregory Wiedeman, University Archivist, University at Albany, SUNY IIPC Web Archiving Week 2017 London http://www.gregwiedeman.com/presentations/slides/iipc.html#/
Productive is Pretty: Using Trello to Visualize Project Management for Effective Organizations and Fun-Loving People By Dani and Jess http://theroughlyrightway.com/productive-pretty/
An Introduction to SQL for Librarians By Ruth Kitchen Tillman Why are Librarians Suited to SQL? Because querying information is what we do. You’ve thought “ok this is what I want, now where do I go to get it and what should I put into the fields?” In many cases we’re already doing mediated queries…
Requests allows you to send organic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without the need for manual labor. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, powered by urllib3, which is embedded within Requests. http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/
OpenRefine Python Client Library by Paul Makepeace The OpenRefine Python Client Library provides an interface to communicating with an OpenRefine server. https://github.com/PaulMakepeace/refine-client-py
refinr by Chris Muir R package implementation of two algorithms from the open source software OpenRefine. These functions take a character vector as input, identify and cluster similar values, and then merge clusters together so their values become identical. The cluster methods used are key collision and ngram fingerprint (more info on these here). In…
by OpenRefine GitHub repository contributors You can use Refine to translate street addresses to lat/lng coordinates to plot data on maps. While there is no native geocoding command in Refine, you can still accomplish this task calling HTTP-based geocoding services using the command Add Column by Fetching URLs and then parsing the returned HTTP responses…
by OpenRefine GitHub repository contributors This page collects OpenRefine recipes, small workflows and code fragments that show you how to achieve specific things with OpenRefine. Available at this URL: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Recipes Including: String Manipulation Here are some examples of possible types of common string manipulation operations that you might encounter and how they can be achieved with…