OpenRefine v3.2 Beta

This is the beta release of OpenRefine 3.2. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

• New action to replace smart quotes to their ASCII equivalent (#1676)
• New phonetic clustering methods are available: Beider-Morse (#926) and Daitch-Mokotoff (#927)
• The "Uses values as identifiers" operation now accepts cells with RDF uris instead of just identifiers, using the identifierSpace declared by the reconciliation service (#1953)
• References in the Wikidata schema can be copied across statements and items (#1912)
• Items suggested by auto-complete can now be clicked with the middle button, which opens their URL in a new tab (#1934)
• Reconciliation previews are now shown when hovering the candidate (no click is needed). Clicking the candidate opens its page in a new tab. It is possible to disable this feature for matched cells by adding cell-ui.previewMatchedCells=false in the preferences. (#1943)

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine v3.1

This is the final release of OpenRefine 3.1. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

• Importing n-triples, ttl, and JSON-LD files is now possible (#1758)
• The smartSplit function now supports any string, not just a single character. (#1761)
• A new menu to search and replace was added (#1742)
• A field to specify custom column names was added in the CSV/TSV importer
• It is now possible to import and export a Wikidata schema in JSON (#1776)
• Strings are now automatically trimmed in Wikidata schemas. The corresponding issues have been removed. (#1781)
• Browser-based autocomplete has been enabled for Wikidata edit summaries. (#1596)
• It is now possible to mark a column of identifiers as reconciled without calling the reconciliation service (#1778)
• The GREL function parseXml was added (#1818)
• The way text facets handle non-text values was changed. If you rely on this, make sure you add .toString() to the expressions used for text facets in your workflows. (#1662)

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine is funded by the Google News Initiative.

OpenRefine v3.1 Beta

This is the beta release of OpenRefine 3.1. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

• Importing n-triples, ttl, and JSON-LD files is now possible (#1758)
• The smartSplit function now supports any string, not just a single character (#1761)
• A new menu to search and replace was added (#1742)
• A field to specify custom column names was added in the CSV/TSV importer
• It is now possible to import and export a Wikidata schema in JSON (#1776)
• Strings are now automatically trimmed in Wikidata schemas. The corresponding issues have been removed. (#1781)
• Browser-based autocomplete has been enabled for Wikidata edit summaries. (#1596)
• It is now possible to mark a column of identifiers as reconciled without calling the reconciliation service. (#1778)

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine is funded by the Google News Initiative.

OpenRefine v3.0

This is the release of OpenRefine 3.0. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine is funded by Google News Initiative

OpenRefine v3.0 RC1

This is the RC release of OpenRefine 3.0. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features:

• Wikidata extension
• Data package metadata
• Tag system
• Google drive API
• OpenRefine Database Import Extension
• Add coalesce function
• Implement "Facet by null" and "Facet by empty string" and add to customized facets menu
• Feature Request: Export SqlDump
• Migrate from JRDF to JENA library
• Added option to toggle show/hide null values in cells in data-table
• Unify the internal date type
• Update OpenRefine logo
• Set http req headers
• Add find function
• Some bug fixes

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine is funded by Google News Initiative

OpenRefine v3.0 Beta

This is the beta release of OpenRefine 3.0. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features:

• Wikidata extension
• Data package metadata
• Tag system
• Google drive API
• OpenRefine Database Import Extension
• Add coalesce function
• Implement "Facet by null" and "Facet by empty string" and add to customized facets menu
• Feature Request: Export SqlDump
• Migrate from JRDF to JENA library
• Added option to toggle show/hide null values in cells in data-table
• Unify the internal date type
• Update OpenRefine logo
• Set http req headers
• Add find function
• Some bug fixes

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine is funded by Google News Initiative

OpenRefine v2.8 Release

This is the official release of OpenRefine 2.8. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features:

• Project metadata support
• Enhancement of the reconciliation API
• Support split multivalued-cells by regex/special characters
• Text filter exclude
• Add free memory detection and Notification to user
• Improved UI for better usability
• New importer for Wikitables
• Some bug fixes

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine is funded by Google News Initiative

OpenRefine v2.7 Release

This is the official release of OpenRefine 2.7. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features:

• Wikidata Reconcile (replaced old Freebase Reconcile service) and hosted by Wikimedia Foundation.
• Export Clusters button on Clustering dialog.
• Japanese translation
• Support multiple "logical and" and "logical or" instead of just 2
• "Transform All" support to apply the operations to multiple columns
• Some bug fixes

See the full list of changes.

OpenRefine v2.7 Release Candidate 2

This is the 2nd beta release of OpenRefine 2.7. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features:

• Upgrade the Jython library to 2.7

OpenRefine v2.7 Release Candidate 1

This is the first beta release of OpenRefine 2.7. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features:

• Wikidata Reconcile (replaced old Freebase Reconcile service) and hosted by Wikimedia Foundation.
• Export Clusters button on Clustering dialog.
• Japanese translation

See the full list of changes.