[open-linguistics] Google Refine + RDF export

Sat Mar 10 14:55:56 UTC 2012

Hi all,

I just came across a tool called Google Refine (formerly from
Freebase's Gridworks) that looks useful for going through large sets
of tabular data to locate and fix inconsistencies:

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

And although I haven't tried it, there's a RDF export extension to
Google Refine:

http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/grefine-rdf-extension/

that apparently has a graphical interface for defining the RDF
mappings and it can "Reconcile against SPARQL endpoints or RDF dump
files". There's also "a simple example showing how RDF can be
extracted and interlinked to DBpedia from a sample CSV file".

This may be a useful tool for those who have (or can dump) CSV data
and who want to transform that into RDF "easily".

Best,

-Steve

Steven Moran | LMU Munich