Workshop materials:
Download Open Refine here:http://openrefine.org/download.html
Workshop materials are here.
Download the following from the Google Drive:
OR_catalogers_workshop document
OR_catalogers worksheet
OR_catalogers_names worksheet
Please follow the OR_catalogers_tutorial documentation for easy cutting and pasting throughout.
Objectives of this workshop:
Creating a project
Understanding the interface
Faceting and Clustering data
Splitting and Trimming data
Editing data
Using basic GREL
Using the FAST API for subject headings
Reconciling name entities with Wikidata, LCNAF, and VIAF
Introduction
What is Open Refine? Why use it?
Some important notes:
It’s not a spreadsheet or a database, but it has the look and feel of spreadsheets with the robustness of a database.
Don’t try to use it for data entry. Add your data in Excel or another program first, then import.
You get infinite undos!
You can apply actions/transformations from one project to another for quick data manipulation.
More resources: