Additional Resources / Readings

Tutorials

• “OpenRefine for Social Science Data”
  • Data Carpentry Lesson on OpenRefine (Social Science data)
• “Data Cleaning with OpenRefine for Ecologists”
  • Data Carpentry Lesson on OpenRefine (Ecology data)
• “Introduction to OpenRefine”
  • online lesson on OpenRefine from Ariel Deardorff, using NLM Dietary Supplements data

Useful Resources

• OpenRefine user manual
  • Newly updated (2021-01-15) manual for OpenRefine 3.4.1
• General Refine Expression Language (GREL)
  • Specific section of the documentation on the GREL syntax for manipulating data in OpenRefine
• OpenRefine LibGuide
  • Extensive Guide to the features of OpenRefine
• OpenRefine Recipes
  • example code for doing specific tasks

Software

• “OpenRefine”
  • the OpenRefine tool for cleaning data
• “fusepoolP3 / p3-batchrefine”
  • a command-line tool to programmatically run OpenRefine on many / large datasets