Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

"My network team took it away because they believe open source is generally not secure." That's insane, the product was developed by Google! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine Shyam Oberoi Chief Digital Officer Royal Ontario Museum O: 416-586-7935 E: sobe...@rom.on.ca -Original

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

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

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

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

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

Hi Samantha - I have a question related to your answer for Erin. Do you know of a program other than OpenRefine that can fetch URIs from the Getty's reconciliation services? I have been using OpenRefine for AAT vocabulary terms in a data publishing project. My network team took it away because

Re: [MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

Hi Erin, I would highly recommend using OpenRefine '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

[MCN-L] Assistance needed with ULAN data

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