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 […]
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 […]
by Ruth Tillman When developing local collections, librarians and archivists often create detailed metadata which then gets stored in collection-specific silos. At times, the metadata could be used to augment other collections but the software does not provide native support […]
This tool consumes the clusters exported by OpenRefine and aims to provide an easy interface for stakeholders to participate in the process of deciding what the “canonical” representation of a data value should be. See the demo at: http://amiaopensource.github.io/TIDY A […]
We do quite a bit of uploading of our British Library digitised collections to Wikimedia Commons and using their GLAMwiki Toolset allows us to fashion our metadata up front so it is consistent, and upload files in bulk by collection. […]
by Christina Harlow This Repository just covers the ‘Enhancing Metadata with Geospatial Data’ workshop portion: see the link to the full workshop schedule and documentation here:http://bit.ly/DLF15geowkshop DLF Forum 2015 Purposes for this portion/intro to scope shift Getting items in previously […]
By Lynn Whittenberger, Metadata Librarian, Raynor Memorial Library, Marquette University Abstract: Describes the steps taken to extract Author/Corporate names from our local catalog (III-Sierra), the initial data cleanup work done in Microsoft Excel, and the final data cleanup work and […]
by Christina Harlow Data munging, or the work of remediating, enhancing and transforming library datasets for new or improved uses, has become more important and staff-inclusive in many library technology discussions and projects. Many times we know how we want […]
by Christina Harlow An OpenRefine reconciliation service for GeoNames. Tested with, working on python 2.7.10, 3.4.3. The service queries the GeoNames API and provides normalized scores across queries for reconciling in Refine. https://github.com/cmh2166/geonames-reconcile
Implementing a Collaborative Workflow for Metadata Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Mapping The University of North Texas (UNT) and the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) are collaborating to digitize, process, and make publicly available more than one million photographs from the Oklahoma […]