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Williams Open Refine for Librarians
This document summarizes a presentation about the data cleaning tool Open Refine and how librarians are using it. The presentation has three parts: an introduction to Open Refine describing it as a popular but unknown library tool, a comparison of Open Refine to Excel explaining why Open Refine is better for handling larger datasets, and examples of how librarians have used Open Refine for tasks like migrating 50,000 catalog records between library management systems.
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Williams Open Refine for Librarians
- 1. Open Refine forLibrarians How a power tool for Google is now being used by librarians to clean up data and connect it to the world Mita Williams Scholarly Communications Librarian University of Windsor October 24, 2018 : 2:45 - 3:15 pm NISO: That Cutting Edge: Technology’s Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library
- 2. PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TOOPEN REFINE The most popular library tool you’ve never heard of…
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- 11. PART TWO: WHY NOTKEEP USING EXCEL? The most popular library tool you’ve never heard of…
- 12. Why use OpenRefine? • Ability to handle more types of data TSV, CSV, *SV, Excel (.xls and .xlsx), JSON, XML, RDF as XML • Ability to handle larger amounts of data Excel’s max: 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns • Better control of data • Ability to script processes • Ability share and reproduce these scripts
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- 20. PART THREE: HOW ARELIBRARIANS USING OPENREFINE? !!! OpenRefine is NOT Excel !!!
- 21. • Institution changingtheir library management system and wished to migrate their catalogue data • Approximately 50,000 bibliographic records • MARC output from existing system would not load into new system link
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- 34. Been there! Donethat! Bought the t-shirt! (Any questions?)