Using OpenRefine for Library Metadata

$175.00

Dates: June 7 - July 4

Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs

OpenRefine is a free open-source tool that makes editing messy metadata easier through clustering, faceting, advanced find and replace scripting, and linked data reconciliation in a spreadsheet-like environment. In addition to cleaning up metadata, OpenRefine’s linked data and URL building tools can extend metadata through databases and API calls.

Clear
Category:
Instructor:

Course Information

Session

Credits

1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs

Course Description

OpenRefine is a free open-source tool that makes editing messy metadata easier through clustering, faceting, advanced find and replace scripting, and linked data reconciliation in a spreadsheet-like environment. In addition to cleaning up metadata, OpenRefine’s linked data and URL building tools can extend metadata through databases and API calls.

This course will introduce OpenRefine from a beginning level with installation, introduce how to effectively use standard features, and go on to introduce more advanced features such as reconciliation against Library of Congress Subject Headings linked data and creating an API call.

Learning outcomes:

  • Students will be able to install and run OpenRefine on their computers.
  • Students will be able to edit a spreadsheet file with simple errors.
  • Students will be understand the role of clustering, faceting, and searching in editing data.
  • Students will be able to construct a simple API call to search against their data.
  • Students will be able to install a simple reconciliation extension service.

Note: Students may want to use the following book as background material for the course. It is widely available in libraries: Ruben Verborgh and Max De Wilde, Using OpenRefine (Birmingham: Packt Publishing, 2013) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889271264

This course can be taken as one of eight courses needed to earn our Certificate in Cataloging and Technical Services, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.

Greer Martin

Greer MartinGreer Martin is the Metadata Technologies Librarian at Loyola University Chicago, where she coordinates metadata interoperability across library platforms. She has written and presented on using OpenRefine for metadata cleanup and authority reconciliation, and has managed metadata migration projects. Greer previously held metadata librarian positions at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia where she created and enhanced metadata for aggregation by Digital Public Library of America. She received an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Special Session

Please contact us to arrange a special session of this class for a group of seven or more, with a negotiable discount, or to be notified when it is next scheduled.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Using OpenRefine for Library Metadata”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/130-using-openrefine-library-metadata/?attribute_pa_session=2020-10-oct
libraryjuiceacademy.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-45
51144
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:6D4HJXH3Z5ESBYTNF3SJ3237KOBHQPAZ
<urn:uuid:75a91c18-b514-479c-989b-1102d5db0caa>
2020-10-23T21:55:45Z
64.91.230.11
text/html
sha1:MUR3X733RBUHCMED5742TDFVH44ZHOWV
<urn:uuid:eb7c2ab2-56b5-4c99-901e-f7cbc88a80ff>
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/130-using-openrefine-library-metadata/?attribute_pa_session=2020-10-oct
response
<urn:uuid:c6534cc0-b2fa-4bf7-a79e-4c099b5bf964>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-45
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-50.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/