GLAM/Newsletter/February 2022/Contents/Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue II, February 2022

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report

Editing SDC with OpenRefine; Monthly OpenRefine and Wikimedia office hours

Editing structured data with OpenRefine is now possible

On February 22, 2022, the OpenRefine team held a community meetup to present the current status of Structured Data on Commons development in OpenRefine.

This meetup was fully recorded; the recording can be found on the event page. The slides and an Etherpad with links and notes are also available for review.

In this meetup, the OpenRefine team demonstrated how it's already possible to edit structured data on existing Wikimedia Commons files, using a version 3.6 snapshot release of OpenRefine (it's not possible with the 3.5.x versions or earlier). An explanation of this process can be watched in the meetup's video recording.

The start of this process is also explained in this short video:

Short demo video (3'25") of the Wikimedia Commons Reconciliation Service inside OpenRefine. You can use it to retrieve Wikitext and structured data of Commons files so that you can continue working with this data in OpenRefine. Check the service's homepage for a more detailed how-to.

Monthly OpenRefine / Wikimedia office hours

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In the upcoming months, the OpenRefine team will host monthly office hours for OpenRefine users from the Wikimedia community. You can meet and ask questions to other OpenRefine users here, and talk to members of the development team. These office hours are informal, have no set agenda, and are not recorded.

For now, we have scheduled office hours until end June 2022. Time of the day alternates to accommodate participants from diverse time zones. If these office hours prove to be popular, we will plan more of these later!