The OpenRefine team is delighted to share our new user manual!

The OpenRefine advisory committee solicits proposals to improve contributor onboarding and retention in the project, funded by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation via the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative under their Essential Open Source Software for Science programme.

We are happy to announce that three interns will join the development team this summer:

The OpenRefine team is seeking a technical writer to help write a reference manual for the tool. This is a 6 months contract, funded by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation via the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative under their Essential Open Source Software for Science programme.

OpenRefine will offer internships via the Outreachy and Google Summer of Code programs this year.

The results of our fourth OpenRefine user survey are out! We received 178 responses in less than four weeks (vs. 122 in 2018 over seven months)!

As announced in the previous post, the OpenRefine project has joined Code for Science and Society as a Sponsored Project. We are thrilled to join this new home, which will help the project grow on the long term and set its openness in stone.

We are pleased to announce that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has awarded OpenRefine a $200,000 grant to fund its development in 2020. This award is part of CZI’s Essential Open Source Software for Science program which awarded $5 million to over 40 projects.

We are pleased to announce that the Wikidata community has awarded a WikidataCon 2019 Award to OpenRefine in the Editing category.

From December 12, 2017, to June 7, 2018, we ran our third OpenRefine user survey. Over five months; we received 122 responses. The goal of the study is to keep an accurate and up to date picture of the OpenRefine community.