As I plan the summer and fall sessions for the community call series, I am interested in hearing which topics or sessions the community would like to see covered.
I put together a multi-answer poll below to collect interest. Please vote for the sessions you would be most likely to attend or contribute to. You can also reply in this thread with other topic suggestions, speaker ideas, or offers to help organize a session.
- a) Wikimedia training session
- b) Reconciliation services overview
- c) Hosting OpenRefine in organizations
- d) Trainer session: teaching OpenRefine and building curricula
- e) Improving our trainer contributor page
- f) Code session/developer Ask Me Anything
- g) OpenRefine workflow demos
- h) Working with metadata standards in OpenRefine
- i) Documenting user support practices
- j) Translation and localization session
- k) Extension demo session
Session details
a) Wikimedia training session: A training-focused session on using OpenRefine with Wikimedia projects. We could review existing training materials, identify gaps, and discuss whether a reusable recorded session would be useful.
b) Reconciliation services overview: A presentation of different reconciliation services: what data is available, when to use each service, and how they relate to OpenRefine workflows. The goal would be to invite some reconciliation service maintainers to present their services.
c) Hosting OpenRefine in organizations: A discussion with people running OpenRefine in institutional or shared environments, including servers, HPC, Jupyter, hosted deployments, and maintenance questions.
d) Trainer session: teaching OpenRefine and building curricula: A session for trainers to share teaching approaches, workshop formats, common learner difficulties, and reusable materials. This would follow up on previous BarCamp discussions:
- OpenRefine 2024 Barcamp: Approaches to Training People to Use OpenRefine
- 2025 Barcamp Session Proposal: Trainers’ Tips & Experiences for Effective OpenRefine Training
e) Improving our trainer contributor page: A working session to update the contributor guidelines related to training: Add "trainer" contributor page · Issue #529 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub
f) Code session/developer Ask Me Anything: An AMA-style session with existing committers and core developer group members, pending availability.
g) OpenRefine workflow demos: Workflow demos from different user communities, for example GLAM, journalists, Wikimedians, researchers, or FAIR data workflows.
h) Working with metadata standards in OpenRefine: A session on working with metadata standards and related workflows, such as Dublin Core, DataCite, DCAT, DDI, controlled vocabularies, and repository metadata.
i) Documenting user support practices: A working session to document what user support looks like in OpenRefine: forum support, GitHub issues, common questions, escalation paths, and how contributors can help.
- This could be an opportunity to update the contributor guidelines related to user support: Add "user support" contributor page · Issue #528 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub .
- This was also discussed during the 2024 BarCamp contributor pathways session: OpenRefine 2024 Barcamp: Improving Contributor Pathways
j) Translation and localization session: A session for translators and users working in non-English contexts to discuss translation workflows, documentation gaps, and priorities. This could be an opportunity to update the contributor guidelines related to translation:
- Split developer information out of translators page · Issue #542 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub
- Add details on Weblate integration · Issue #526 · OpenRefine/openrefine.org · GitHub
k) Extension demo session: A session to demo one or more OpenRefine extensions. If you vote for this option, please reply in the thread to indicate which extension you would be interested in learning more about.