rare productivity tip: more people should use OpenRefine more often than they do
People on here talk about Microsoft Excel more than any site I’ve ever been on.
September 12, 2024 at 8:44 PM
rare productivity tip: more people should use OpenRefine more often than they do
La version 3.9.1 de #OpenRefine est disponible. La version en français doit à nouveau fonctionner dans cette version openrefine.org/download
Download | OpenRefine
openrefine.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
La version 3.9.1 de #OpenRefine est disponible. La version en français doit à nouveau fonctionner dans cette version openrefine.org/download
Maybe? I don't know enough to say for sure programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/f...
Fetching and Parsing Data from the Web with OpenRefine
OpenRefine is a powerful tool for exploring, cleaning, and transforming data. In this lesson you will learn how to use Refine to fetch URLs and parse web content.
programminghistorian.org
September 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Maybe? I don't know enough to say for sure programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/f...
Still find it wild that OpenRefine is not better known.
“OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.”
“OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.”
OpenRefine
openrefine.org
August 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Still find it wild that OpenRefine is not better known.
“OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.”
“OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.”
📚OpenRefine and Wikidata are delicious. So why won’t you try it?
Will you try OpenRefine and Wikidata if I give you very selfish reasons to do so?
librarian.aedileworks.com/2024/04/03/o...
Will you try OpenRefine and Wikidata if I give you very selfish reasons to do so?
librarian.aedileworks.com/2024/04/03/o...
OpenRefine and Wikidata are delicious. So why won’t you try it?
Will you try OpenRefine and Wikidata if I give you very selfish reasons to do so?
librarian.aedileworks.com
April 3, 2024 at 9:16 PM
📚OpenRefine and Wikidata are delicious. So why won’t you try it?
Will you try OpenRefine and Wikidata if I give you very selfish reasons to do so?
librarian.aedileworks.com/2024/04/03/o...
Will you try OpenRefine and Wikidata if I give you very selfish reasons to do so?
librarian.aedileworks.com/2024/04/03/o...
I love learning about activity around the Museum Data Service, like a great practical post on 'Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine' by Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad museumdata.uk/blog/checkin...
Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine - Museum Data Service
Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad student, discusses how they used a combination of Excel, OpenRefine and Wikidata to find new museum records to add to MDS from the Mapping Museum…
museumdata.uk
June 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I love learning about activity around the Museum Data Service, like a great practical post on 'Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine' by Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad museumdata.uk/blog/checkin...
Working in #OpenRefine and have added a column to a project in order to vent. This saves hair follicles.
February 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Working in #OpenRefine and have added a column to a project in order to vent. This saves hair follicles.
It’s Saturday and I have to do a class on openRefine send thots and prayers
February 17, 2024 at 3:32 PM
It’s Saturday and I have to do a class on openRefine send thots and prayers
📌Ny norsk interaktiv innføringsbok i programmering for humanister og samfunnsvitere og arkiv-, bibliotek- og museumsfeltet!
Stolt av å endelig lansere v1.0 av "Databehandling og -analyse med Python og OpenRefine: En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere".
Https://www.python4abm.no
Stolt av å endelig lansere v1.0 av "Databehandling og -analyse med Python og OpenRefine: En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere".
Https://www.python4abm.no
August 26, 2024 at 6:49 PM
📌Ny norsk interaktiv innføringsbok i programmering for humanister og samfunnsvitere og arkiv-, bibliotek- og museumsfeltet!
Stolt av å endelig lansere v1.0 av "Databehandling og -analyse med Python og OpenRefine: En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere".
Https://www.python4abm.no
Stolt av å endelig lansere v1.0 av "Databehandling og -analyse med Python og OpenRefine: En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere".
Https://www.python4abm.no
OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics learn.wiki/courses/cour...
OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics
Learn to upload and edit files on Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine. A self-paced course with computer-graded exercises.
learn.wiki
December 6, 2024 at 8:43 PM
OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics learn.wiki/courses/cour...
Great to see Elspeth Haston emphasising OpenRefine! #LivingData2025
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Great to see Elspeth Haston emphasising OpenRefine! #LivingData2025
I'm going through the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social creator ids for research expeditions & either adding them to existing #Wikidata items or creating new Wikidata items via #OpenRefine. I'm linking participant items, adding dates & locations. Many are @natural-history.bsky.social expeditions. #AMNH
April 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I'm going through the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social creator ids for research expeditions & either adding them to existing #Wikidata items or creating new Wikidata items via #OpenRefine. I'm linking participant items, adding dates & locations. Many are @natural-history.bsky.social expeditions. #AMNH
Had a fun time learning more about OpenRefine to teach with it this week. Really powerful and useful stuff. openrefine.org
OpenRefine
openrefine.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Had a fun time learning more about OpenRefine to teach with it this week. Really powerful and useful stuff. openrefine.org
lol openrefine can clean your spreadsheet pretty good already openrefine.org
OpenRefine
openrefine.org
June 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
lol openrefine can clean your spreadsheet pretty good already openrefine.org
The ROR OpenRefine Reconciler is a powerful tool that lets you match a spreadsheet or CSV of organization names to ROR IDs with complete control over every single match you select. Read more in our documentation.
ROR OpenRefine Reconciler
OpenRefine is a tool for cleaning up messy data, and it integrates with ROR to match organization names to ROR IDs without coding. It's best for small organization lists, and the process involves…
ror.readme.io
March 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The ROR OpenRefine Reconciler is a powerful tool that lets you match a spreadsheet or CSV of organization names to ROR IDs with complete control over every single match you select. Read more in our documentation.
Vi ska ut och göra lill-lördag och hon i baren kommer fråga varför jag är så sur och jag kommer förklara att csv-filen som Openrefine spottade ut var ful och jag fick ta bort en massa extra fnuttar innan jag kunda stoppa in den i Quickstatements och
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Vi ska ut och göra lill-lördag och hon i baren kommer fråga varför jag är så sur och jag kommer förklara att csv-filen som Openrefine spottade ut var ful och jag fick ta bort en massa extra fnuttar innan jag kunda stoppa in den i Quickstatements och
Friday afternoon catalogue data wrangling -- personally, I'm fond of "bookse;;er."
July 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Friday afternoon catalogue data wrangling -- personally, I'm fond of "bookse;;er."
The issue with updated OpenRefine on Macs is fixed! github.com/OpenRefine/O...
March 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
The issue with updated OpenRefine on Macs is fixed! github.com/OpenRefine/O...
I dag har jeg publisert en interaktiv lærebok men fordi det er en siste liten hangup kommer ikke endelig versjon (og pressemelding) før på mandag men.....
Sneak-peek: www.python4abm.no
En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere i jobbe med data og programmering 💕🙌
Sneak-peek: www.python4abm.no
En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere i jobbe med data og programmering 💕🙌
Databehandling og -analyse med Python og OpenRefine — Databehandling og -analyse
www.python4abm.no
August 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I dag har jeg publisert en interaktiv lærebok men fordi det er en siste liten hangup kommer ikke endelig versjon (og pressemelding) før på mandag men.....
Sneak-peek: www.python4abm.no
En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere i jobbe med data og programmering 💕🙌
Sneak-peek: www.python4abm.no
En praktisk innføring for humanister og samfunnsvitere i jobbe med data og programmering 💕🙌
here's the PropterMalone promise: for most people there will one thing you regularly want to do with your data, even if it's just like PTA survey results or whatever, that the first time you do it will be faster to 1) learn how to do in OpenRefine+2) do in OpenRefine than it is to do elsewhere
September 12, 2024 at 8:54 PM
here's the PropterMalone promise: for most people there will one thing you regularly want to do with your data, even if it's just like PTA survey results or whatever, that the first time you do it will be faster to 1) learn how to do in OpenRefine+2) do in OpenRefine than it is to do elsewhere
Putting together a workshop today on OpenRefine for my course next semester on "Data for the Rest of Us," an introduction to data management and literacy for humanities students.
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Putting together a workshop today on OpenRefine for my course next semester on "Data for the Rest of Us," an introduction to data management and literacy for humanities students.
BookReconciler is designed as an extension of OpenRefine, so anybody can use it. No computational experience required.
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
BookReconciler is designed as an extension of OpenRefine, so anybody can use it. No computational experience required.
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
Spent some time yesterday using #OpenRefine to add structured data to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary sourced images from the book The Fishes of Samoa in #WikimediaCommons. Such glorious images, now much more easily found.
December 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Spent some time yesterday using #OpenRefine to add structured data to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary sourced images from the book The Fishes of Samoa in #WikimediaCommons. Such glorious images, now much more easily found.