Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• What other resources are available for working with OpenRefine?

Objectives

• Understand that there are many online resources available for more information on OpenRefine.

• Identify other resources about OpenRefine.

Lesson

Identify other Resources about OpenRefine.

OpenRefine is more than a simple data cleaning tool. People are using it for all sorts of activities. Here are some other resources that might prove useful.

OpenRefine has its own web site with documentation and a book:

• OpenRefine web site
• OpenRefine Documentation for Users
• OpenRefine documentation Wiki site
• Using OpenRefine book by Ruben Verborgh, Max De Wilde and Aniket Sawant
• OpenRefine history from Wikipedia

In addition, see these other useful resources:

• Grateful Data is a fun sight with many resources devoted to OpenRefine, including a nice tutorial.
• Margaret Heller shows how she uses OpenRefine for Measuring and Counting Impact in Repositories.
• Intersect Course Resources has Jared Berghold’s Cleaning & Exploring your data with Open Refine (scroll down page to find).
• Enipedia OpenRefine Tutorial
• Thomas Padilla provides a web tutorial as well, using a Digital Humanities perspective.

There are more advanced uses of OpenRefine, such as bringing in column or cell data using web locators (URLs or APIs). The links above can give you a start on your journey.

Exercise

Visit one of these sites and share what you find with another person.

Key Points

• Other examples and resources online are good for learning more about OpenRefine