Thank you so much, everyone! I discovered a love of data during the PhD program I completed last year - I feel like it's late to discover the analytical side of my brain mid-career. As such, I'm definitely a novice, but recognized immediately that many museums are just terrible about data as a general concept so I try to put on the data hat every time I sign on with a new project to understand how we can work toward letting data help us be more efficient in cataloging. Thank you, Getty (and David, in particular) for creating this tool. I'll let you know how it goes with this project! I think i might be a representative of the target market for OpenRefine (someone who kind of knows what they're doing - or at least knows what should be possible, but nothing about the architecture required to make it work), so I'll make careful notes about my experience with the tutorial.
Again, Thank you! Erin _____________ Erin Richardson, PhD, Principal Erin Richardson Consulting <https://www.erinrichardsonconsulting.com/> 518.577.0186 LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinerichardson/> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:07 PM David Newbury <dnewb...@getty.edu> wrote: > Hi, Erin-- > > I'd like to second Sami's recommendation. The need to take an existing > spreadsheet of information and look up which Getty Vocabulary term matches > is very common, and what we've found is that OpenRefine is the best tool > for doing that, which is why we've worked to provide integration points for > the Getty Vocabularies there. > > The URL for the service is http://services.getty.edu/vocab/reconcile, > which is the URL you would link to within OpenRefine to add the integration > point. For a more useful tutorial on how to use it, > https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/openrefine_tutorial.pdf > contains step-by-step instructions. > > Please let me know if those instructions don't make sense--we're still > trying to figure out how best to describe the tool and help people use it, > and we'd welcome feedback as we work to improve the documentation. > > — David > > David Newbury > Enterprise Software Architect, Getty Digital > > Email: dnewb...@getty.edu > Phone: (310) 440-6116 > > On 8/16/19, 10:37 AM, "mcn-l on behalf of Sami Norling" < > mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of sami.norl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Erin, > > I would highly recommend using OpenRefine <http://openrefine.org>'s > reconciliation service to reconcile the museum's data with ULAN > entities. > Once reconciled in OpenRefine, you can then enrich the museum's > existing > data with any of the data points available in ULAN. I am going through > this > process with the Indianapolis Museum of Art data to better support our > linked data initiatives as well as to ensure that our data is as > complete > as it can be. > > As an added step, I would also suggest that when you are done with the > reconciliation work, you contact the Getty vocabularies team to inquire > about contributing information about artists not currently in ULAN to > their > data set. My understanding is that they are very encouraging of such > contributions. > > Please consider this e-mail a super basic overview, and feel free to > contact me directly for more specific information about how to use > OpenRefine and their reconciliation services for your project. I'm more > than happy to help! > > *Samantha Norling* > > Digital Collections Manager > > *Newfields Lab* – Technology for Nature & the Arts > > -------------------------------------------- > > *Newfields* > > 4000 Michigan Road > Indianapolis, IN 46208 > > -------------------------------------------- > > snorl...@discovernewfields.org > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM Erin Richardson < > e...@erinrichardsonconsulting.com> wrote: > > > Hi wise MCN-L members! > > > > I am working with a museum to clean up their data. I don't have a > lot of > > backend data experience. My task is to populate artist records with > ULAN > > data. They're using EmbARK. I'd like to upload the relevant metadata > using > > the ULAN ID as a link. I'm having difficulty accessing the ULAN data > from > > getty's download center. > > > https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/download.html > > > > Note: I know next to nothing about data that is not in CSV format. > I've > > tried to convert the sample ULAN XML data to CSV but am getting lots > of > > errors. > > > > I don't even really understand the reasonable-ness of this question, > so > > please bear with me! > > > > Thanks for any help you're able to offer! > > > > Erin > > > > _____________ > > > > Erin Richardson, PhD, Principal > > > > Erin Richardson Consulting < > https://www.erinrichardsonconsulting.com/> > > > > 518.577.0186 > > > > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinerichardson/> > > _______________________________________________ > > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer > > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Getty. 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