Hello everyone! I've experienced some issues with the VIAF reconciliation since the beginnig of 2025. VIAF has recently updated its website, but since then the OpenRefine VIAF Reconciliation service is not working at all. I updated my OR version to 3.8.7 for Windows 10. Also updated the VIAF Reco…

I was able to use the reconciliation service. To identify the cause will need some additional information, can you share the browser console log and also the application log.

I am also having this issue! I've tried running the last three releases on my Mac but the reconcilation with VIAF won't work. I have my browser console log, how to get it to you?

@mizalmond you can post the log directly in the forum. Can you please also indicate your version of OpenRefine your OS your browser if you have any other extension installed. thanks

I'm a new user, so I can't upload attachments, and it also won't let me paste in the log, so not sure what to do there. @martin Okay I just put it in dropbox , couldn't think of another workaround. Thanks for your help.

Hi @mizalmond Thank you for sharing the log file. Log file points to few issues with the Zotero connector and also issues in communication. No entries found for VIAF reconciliation. Can you capture both the browser and application end logs using below steps Application log capture - follow the s…

Thanks for your help with this! Here is the log from the terminal, and reference screenshots. Last login: Fri Feb 14 12:40:48 on console mainlibrary@SoulCity ~ % /Applications/OpenRefine.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaAppLauncher 11:31:33.416 [ refine_server] Starting Server bound to '127.0.0…

Thank you for sharing the logs and screenshots. There are no script or API call failures, the one error is a content security policy error. Can you confirm the below points On the reconciliation UI - is there a loading icon or a empty entity list? Do you have a content security policy extension o…

Hi there! Colleagues and I are also having issues with the VIAF reconciliation, both in Mac and Windows environments, since the start of 2025. I will focus today on Windows, since I am on my Windows computer at work. I am using OpenRefine version 3.8.2 (I don't have much agency to upgrade to a mo…

On the reconciliation UI, I have this: [Screenshot 2025-02-19 at 15.11.14] ...just an empty list. I've tried to reconcile on multiple installations on multiple computers running a couple different OSes, and the problem continues. No admin defined security policy on any of my machines. I can't se…

Problems with VIAF Reconciliation

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mizalmond February 13, 2025, 8:19pm 5

Thanks @Martin! I am currently using 3.7.9 because of the mac / reconciliation issues I saw in this post. OS is Sequoia 15.3, using Chrome. Extensions are here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Reconciliation not even starting with latest version Support and Helpdesk	21	420	January 13, 2025
Issue augmenting Wikidata QIDs in OR Support and Helpdesk	12	797	January 6, 2023
March 19, 2026 Advisory Committee Day-to-day project operations minute-advisory	3	27	April 7, 2026
Error while reconciliating Support and Helpdesk	3	85	March 27, 2026
Reconciliation not getting automatically matched against type Running OpenRefine wikibase , reconciliation	3	320	January 23, 2026

Problems with VIAF Reconciliation

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