Reconciliation screencast by Owen + flyout service for Wikidata

[Antonin Delpeuch (lists)‏]

Hi all,

For those of you who haven't heard of it yet - brace yourselves! Owen
has made a crystal clear, comprehensive video about reconciliation in
OpenRefine:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_0jeq3PjvtADzbovAgHNzOFvOlyF6uL1
Looks like we'll soon be able to ditch the old Google Refine videos!

Also, I have some good news for the Wikidata service (it has actually
been around for a while but hasn't been noticed much): a (basic) flyout
service is available. To enable it you only need to delete the service
and add it again. When hovering a suggestion of a property or item, you
should see its description popping up next to it, like this:

http://pintoch.ulminfo.fr/4a9b7d8e9e/flyout.png

It's not as nice as having the descriptions in the suggestions
themselves (i.e. what you get on wikidata.org) but that's all I can do
without tweaking the reconciliation API. (That might be one of the
things we could consider doing next year? It would be an important UX
enhancement.)

Cheers,
Antonin

[Ettore Rizza‏]

Thank you for this usefull feature, Antonin, and thanks to Owen for these tutorials!