resources.md

Resources & Tools

A list of helpful resources to learn more about the pieces of the the GaNCH project

Linked Open Data

• Intro to Linked Open Data for Libraries

Wikidata

• Asaf Bartov: Wiki + data = Wikidata (and why you should care) [video] - Good quick intro to Wikidata
• Request a Query
• Cradle - Create a form for manually ingesting similar items

Git / GitHub

• Intro to Git

VS Code

• Visual Studio Code - Text and code editor with a built-in terminal. Free and easy to learn interface.
• Edit CSV extension - Edit CSV files in spreadsheet format within VS Code. We don't use MS Excel since it reformats content (dates, etc.).
• markdownlint extension - Helps with formatting markdown files. We're writing all our documentation in markdown because it provides human- and machine-readable rich text formatting.
• python extension - Python for VS Code.

OpenRefine

• OpenRefine - Main OpenRefine page
• Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine - Using OpenRefine with Wikidata
• Reconciliation with Wikidata
• Advanced Schemas

Web Scraping / Data Cleanup

• HTML Table to CSV/Excel Converter
• How to scrap websites with Python and BeautifulSoup
• ListDiff - Compare two different lists, helpful for comparing indexes to prevent duplicating work.

Coordinate Locations / Counties

Honestly, we abandoned using these automated geocoding tools part-way through the project, in favor of manually looking up geocoordinate locations in Google Maps. Since after a disaster wayfinding markers and buildings can be destroyed, it was important to have the coordinate locations be on top of the buildings/locations themselves. Unfortunately many of the tools below only give approximate locations since they're based on mailing addresses, so we found it faster and more accurate to just find the locations ourselves. We're leaving these links here for context/reference.

• Maptive
• GeoCoder - batches of up to 100 records at a time for free
• Reverse GeoCoding
• Reverse Geocoder Upload (.CSV)
• Reverse Geocoding Webservices
• FCC API
• Geocodio - 2,500 free lookups per day

Impact

• Hurricaine Dorian Event Map (2019-08/09)

Related Projects and Groups

• RepoData
• LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group
• Wikidata intiatives:
  • FindingGLAMs Campaign - "Help us put cultural heritage institutions on the map!" Crowdsource cultural heritage data around the world, October 8–29, 2019.
  • WikiProject Heritage institutions
  • WikiProject Heritage institutions/Typology
  • WikiProject Libraries
  • WikiProject Museums