Re: OpenRefine

On 10/28/13 4:45 PM, Adrian Stevenson wrote:
> Yep I've been trying to use the open refine reconciliation against SPARQL end points recently without success despite trying all sorts of ways in. Got it working fine with a viaf API reconcil service using the same data so had assumed the SPARQL wasn't working.
>
> Adrian

All,

There is a lot to gain by sharing LOD / Open Refine tar files using 
services like Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive etc.. I encourage everyone 
to add this pattern to the mix re. Linked Open Data curation and 
collaboration.

Kingsley
>
>> On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:01, "Hugh Glaser" <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately I’ve not been a regular user, so it is probably my stupidity.
>> Basically, I go through the Reconcile process using the Freebase Reconcile service, but it doesn’t find anything to reconcile, even though I have fixed it so that there is an entry that has exactly the same text as the Freebase entry title.
>> It just shows as if there are no positive results.
>> I try clicking on the search for match after that, but it never comes back, which makes me wonder.
>>
>>> On 28 Oct 2013, at 18:53, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hugh, I wonder if you could be more specific regarding the troubles
>>> you had with OpenRefine?
>>>
>>> One of our students also had trouble, and I'm wondering if it might be
>>> the same problem.
>>>
>>> Like you, reconciliation with Refine has worked for me in the past but
>>> I haven't tried the same process using OpenRefine...
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>> I’m not sure where to ask, so I’ll try my friends here.
>>>> I was having a go at OpenRefine yesterday, and I can’t get it to reconcile, try as I might - I have even watched the videos again.
>>>> I’m doing what I remember, but it is a while ago.
>>>> Are there others currently using it successfully?
>>>> Or is it possibly a Mavericks (OSX) upgrade thing, which I did recently.
>>>> Cheers
>>>> --
>>>> Hugh
>>>
>>>
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>> Hugh
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>>
>>
>


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