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

Hi Gregory,

Oh yes, now I remember you mentioned that earlier! It is a really 
exciting project, especially given how popular Airtable seems to have 
become. I should have a closer look at this platform.

Best,

Antonin

On 07/03/2022 15:41, Gregory Saumier-Finch wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>> * 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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