Re: Some reconciliation API clients I would be interested in building (or seeing built)

Hi Antonin,

I am planning to build a reconciliation client for Airtable. I will keep you posted as to when we start on this project.

Gregory

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> On Mar 5, 2022, at 5:40 AM, Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I regularly think about building more clients for the reconciliation API, hoping that it picks up popularity beyond OpenRefine. I have been thinking about the following ones recently:
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> * A plugin for Google Sheets. There is already a plugin to look up some information or identifiers from Wikipedia/Wikidata (https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/wikipedia_and_wikidata_tools/595109124715), but that only exposes some functions that can be used in formulas. I would instead aim to offer a proper UI to let the user review matches (outside of cell values, because plugins cannot customize cell rendering). I think having a slick UI, applicable to all reconciliation services, would make for a really popular plugin which would drive adoption of the API.
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> * Some integration with the R2RML, which defines a mapping from a relational database to RDF. There is growing awareness that turning data into linked open data often requires an alignment step, and some ad-hoc solutions to integrate alignment systems into this mapping standard already exist. For instance "EAblock", which integrates the "Falcon" entity alignment system into an R2RML pipeline: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.07493.pdf, https://github.com/SDM-TIB/EABlock. Having a solution based on the reconciliation API could decouple this integration from the particular alignment system and data source.
> 
> If anyone is thinking about building similar things maybe we could coordinate? (Of course I do not know how realistic it is that I find the time to build those things)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Antonin
> 
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