OpenRefine-WikimediaCommons-Workshop

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Workshop OpenRefine & Wikimedia Commons

OpenRefine is a well-known tool for editing, enriching and manipulating data. It is widely used within the Wikimedia community to add data to Wikidata. As from version 3.7, you can also upload images to Wikimedia Commons, enriched with structured data. In this workshop you will learn step by step how to do that.

Learning objectives

In this workshop you will learn

Target audience

This workshop is suitable for people who

but who do not yet know how to use OpenRefine to add images and structured data to Wikimedia Commons.

This workshop is therefore not suitable for people who have never worked with OpenRefine and/or Wikidata.

## Required preparation

Working materials

1) OpenRefine

2) Raw materials

If you want to build up the OpenRefine project from scratch, you can use these raw source materials

3) Example outputs

4) Workshop guidance & outline

Workshop leader

This workshop is given by Olaf Janssen, the Wikimedia coordinator of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the national library of the Netherlands. In this role he stimulates and facilitates collaboration between the collections, knowledge, open data and staff of the KB on the one hand, and the projects of the Wikimedia movement, such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikibase, on the other. He is also active as a volunteer within the community.

Feel free to contact Olaf via olaf.janssen(at)kb.nl

Workshop instances

This workshop was given during

Licensing

All workshop materials are released into the public domain under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal and can therefore be reused freely and openly. Attribution is not required, but still appreciated.

See also

Latest updates

This page was last updated on 14 December 2022.