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About OpenRefine:

OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

From OpenRefine:

OpenRefine is a web application, but is designed to be run locally on your own machine. The server-side maintains states of the data (undo/redo history, long-running processes, etc.) while the client-side maintains states of the user interface (facets and their selections, view pagination, etc.). The client-side makes GET and POST ajax calls to cause changes to the data and to fetch data and data-related states from the server-side.

This architecture provides a good separation of concerns (data vs. UI); allows the use of familiar web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript) to implement user interface features; and enables the server side to be called by third-party software through standard GET and POST operations.

  • Faceting
  • Clustering
  • Reconciliation
  • Infinite undo/redo
  • Privacy
  • Wikibase
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