Getty Vocabularies OpenRefine Reconciliation Service Now Available

[Getty Vocabularies LOD]

Recently, Getty Digital and the Getty Research Institute made the reconciliation service for OpenRefine publicly available. For those who are already familiar with how the reconciliation functionality in OpenRefine works, you can begin connecting your data to the Getty Vocabularies using the URL: http://services.getty.edu/vocab/reconcile/

You can read more about the value of reconciliation with the Getty Vocabularies on the Getty web site and follow a link to a short tutorial that describes how to set up a project in OpenRefine and how to use the reconciliation functionality: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/obtain/openrefine.html

The tutorial also contains information on properties, such as broader concepts, birth date, death date, and place types, that can be used to further filter your results.

More information and features will become available in the near future. Right now, the service performs a basic search on each Vocabulary individually. The service does NOT do auto-matching, but does sort matches with the highest score to the top of the results list. Future enhancements will allow users to search across all Vocabularies and will provide the ability to search the service using URL-encoded JSON via HTTP GET.

Thank you for your interest.

Gregg Garcia

Software Architect

Getty Digital / J. Paul Getty Trust

[Paula Granados]

Hello Getty Vocabularies. I am using Open Refine with the Getty service at work to match our list of artists with ULAN. I have already matched the artists names and I got ULAN IDs and URIs but I am having trouble now to enrich my data further with ULAN properties such as: description, gender, dates etc. What would be the quickest way to do this?

Many thanks, 

All best, 

Paula Garcia