Additional Resources¶

This page has additional resources (links) that can help you work with Refine more efficiently.

• The Ontotext Refine landing page has a number of blogs, webinars, and product news.

Below we list OpenRefine resources. The counts are up to date as of July 2022.

• Official OpenRefine site: https://openrefine.org
• Official Documentation: https://docs.openrefine.org/ including:
  • User Manual
  • GREL Functions
  • Technical Reference
• Extra documentation including:
  • Documentation for users
  • Documentation for developers
  • Support options
  • Online courses
  • The book: “Using OpenRefine”
• Wiki with 123 pages, in particular:
  • Recipes where folks might have solved a similar problem as yours
  • External Tutorials in English (124), Spanish (12), German (18), French (4), Japanese (8)
  • Wiki Documentation For Developers

Reconciliation:

• Reconciling in the user manual
• Reconcilable Data Sources in the wiki
• Reconciliation Testbench with a longer list of Recon services
• Reconciliation Service for Knowledge Graph Enrichment with OntoRefine webinar by Ontotext using GraphDB 9.10 and OntoRefine.

Extra tutorials:

• Google Refine Tutorial. David Huynh. NICAR 2011. A must read tutorial by the original creator of Refine.
• Tutorial: OpenRefine. Atima, Han Zhuang, Ishita Vedvyas, Rishikesh Dole. 2013-12
• GREL cheat sheet. Library Carpentry, Access 2018 (2018-10). Covers regular expressions and GREL.
• Data Carpentry Open Refine Demo. Erika Mudrak, Jeramia Ory, Emily Davenport. Data Carpentry Workshop, Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit. 2015-01

Search for videos on YouTube:

• OpenRefine videos
• OpenRefine and RDF videos