OpenRefine Introduction Workshop
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Description
A practical 90 minutes workshop (in Dutch) to learn how to work with OpenRefine and Wikidata at a basic level.
Learning objectives
OpenRefine is a well-known tool for editing, enriching and manipulating data. It is widely used within the Wikimedia community to add data to Wikidata.
In this practial 90 minutes workshop you will learn the basics of working with OpenRefine to manipulate data and add it to Wikidata. You will learn
- how to create an OpenRefine project,
- how to manipulate and enrich data, and
- how to connect this data to databases such as Wikidata, NTA or VIAF.
Target audience
This workshop is suitable for people who
- have some experience in working with (cultural heritage) data,
- have not used OpenRefine before,
- want to learn the basics of manipulating, enriching and linking data with this tool, but
- who do not necessarily know what "reconciling against Wikidata" means.
Workshop outline & resources
(see also attached Markdown and PDF files)
- Full outline and notes of the workshop. This is a detailed list of actions we will be performing during the workshop.
- Working materials (in Dutch): Werkmaterialen introductieworkshop OpenRefine, KB, 4 juni 2023. This document contains the working materials (links and data) that we will be using during the workshop.
- Recources: Overzicht online les- en hulpmaterialen OpenRefine_OJ22062023.pdf. A selection of useful tutorials, courses, documentation, howtos, videos etc. about Openrefine. Mainly intended for providing references, further reading and more advanced materials for after the workshop.
Required preparation
- Install a recent version of OpenRefine on your machine. It can be downloaded from https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases.
- Create an account on Wikidata - https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount
- Please bring your own laptop to this workshop.
- It would be nice if you have Excel installed as well (but if you haven't, it is not a deal breaker)
Workshop leader
This workshop is given by Olaf Janssen, the Wikimedia coordinator of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the national library of the Netherlands. In this role he stimulates and facilitates collaboration between the collections, knowledge, open data and staff of the KB on the one hand, and the projects of the Wikimedia movement, such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikibase, on the other. He is also active as a volunteer within the community.
If you are interested in this workshop, feel free to contact Olaf via olaf.janssen(at)kb.nl
Workshop instances
This workshop was given for
- KB, national library of the Netherlands, 4 July 2023
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Licensing
All workshop materials are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Attribution: Olaf Janssen/KB, national library of the Netherlands.
Other versions
The materials of this workshop are also published on Github: https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/OpenRefine-Introduction-Workshop/
Latest updates
This page was last updated on 4 August 2023.
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Belangrijkste Inzicht
Deze webpagina kondigt een praktische workshop van 90 minuten aan over OpenRefine en Wikidata, gericht op het bewerken, verrijken en manipuleren van data.
Samenvatting
- De workshop behandelt het gebruik van OpenRefine, een bekend hulpmiddel voor het bewerken en manipuleren van gegevens.
- De workshop richt zich op het toevoegen van gegevens aan Wikidata en is populair binnen de Wikimedia-gemeenschap.
- Doelgroep: Mensen met enige ervaring in het werken met cultureel erfgoeddata die OpenRefine nog niet hebben gebruikt en de basisprincipes willen leren van het manipuleren, verrijken en koppelen van gegevens met dit hulpmiddel.
- Deelnemers leren hoe ze een OpenRefine-project kunnen maken, gegevens kunnen manipuleren en verrijken, en hoe ze deze gegevens kunnen koppelen aan databases zoals Wikidata, NTA of VIAF.
- Vereiste voorbereiding: Installeer een recente versie van OpenRefine op uw computer en maak een account aan op Wikidata.
- De workshop wordt geleid door Olaf Janssen, de Wikimedia-coördinator van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, de nationale bibliotheek van Nederland.
- Alle workshopmaterialen worden vrijgegeven onder de Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International-licentie.
- De workshop werd gegeven op 4 juli 2023 voor KB, de nationale bibliotheek van Nederland.
- De materialen van de workshop zijn beschikbaar op Github.
- De pagina is voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 augustus 2023.
Files
Introductieworkshop OpenRefine voor KBers_4 juli 2023.pdf
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Additional details
Related works
- Is derived from
- Lesson: https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/OpenRefine-Introduction-Workshop (URL)
Dates
- Issued
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2023-07-04