Funding Opportunity: Seeking UKRI-Eligible Partner for Research Software Maintenance Fund Application

[Martin]

@antonin_d thanks for the early feedback. I’m still working on the draft, but it’s now in a much more readable state.

@antonin_d

The solution that is proposed is to make the reconciliation and matching framework as easy to run as possible, so that people can easily spin up a reconciliation service on a dataset and then use it in OpenRefine, but that doesn't seem to go in the direction of native reconciliation with arbitrary datasets to me, as it requires running this adapter. Unless it is foreseen to bundle the reconciliation framework inside OpenRefine somehow, so that people don't have to run it separately?

If OpenRefine were to bundle a native reconciliation service, I believe that would be the most accessible way to make this functionality available to the community (isn't it what #2003 is about?).

Within the scope of this grant application, I envisioned the following workflow where the user

• Downloads a copy of the authority file locally,
• Loads it in OpenRefine as project,
• Configures a local reconciliation by selecting columns and setting scoring rules
• Runs the native reconciliation service.

We’ve planned a design phase during the project to validate what works best for institutions and determine how to package the solution. It could be either as a third-party application, an OpenRefine extension, or integration within OpenRefine core. Feedback from the Core Dev Group is welcome at any stage.

@antonin_d

I guess I struggle with the goal post on its own, independently of this application, because I don't understand the vision behind it. How could OpenRefine possibly offer something like "native reconciliation with arbitrary datasets"?

I opened PR #458 to clarify the goal post. When I created the goalpost page I ported the content from Results from the Feature Prioritization Survey 2024 with minimal copy edits to avoid getting bogged down in scoping details for each goal and delaying the page publication.