Creating new Wikidata items with OpenRefine and Quickstatements
Following on from my blog post using OpenRefine for the first time, I continued my journey to fill Wikidata with all of the Tors on Dartmoor. This post assumes you already have some knowledge of Wikidata, Quickstatements, and have OpenRefine setup. Note: If you are having problems with the reconciliation service it might be worth…
Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time
I have long known about OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) which is a tool for working with data, manipulating and cleaning it. As of version 3.0 (May 2018), OpenRefine included a Wikidata extension, allowing for extra reconciliation and also editing of Wikidata directly (as far as I understand it). You can find some documentation on this…