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sparkica edited this page Feb 13, 2012 · 7 revisions

Google Refine and dbpedia-extension

Google Refine is a really powerful tool for transforming or cleaning up messy data. It's a web application (but intended to be running locally) and can be extended with web services for reconciliation, exporting into different formats etc.

DBpedia extension

DBpedia extension (currently) provides possibility to extend your DBpedia-reconciled data with additional related columns from DBpedia. It is based on similar Freebase extension.

Extending data

  1. Reconcile data in a column using DBpedia reconciliation service, the best way is to use DERI's rdf-extension.
  2. After the column is reconciled, click on column's header, Edit column->Add columns from DBpedia ... Add columns from DBpedia
  3. Select properties (columns) you would like to add and click OK. Adding properties
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