1. Google Refine for Data Quality / Integrity

2. Context BioVeL Data Refinement Workflow Synonym Expansion / Occurrence Retrieval Data Selection Data Quality / Integrity

3. Context BioVeL Data Refinement Workflow Synonym Expansion / Occurrence Retrieval Data Selection Data Quality / Integrity

4. In Google’s Own Words “Google Refine is a power tool for - working with messy data, - cleaning it up, - transforming it from one format into another, - - extending it with web services, - and linking it to databases”

5. In Google’s Own Words “Google Refine is a power tool for - working with messy data, - cleaning it up, - transforming it from one format into another, - - extending it with web services, - and linking it to databases” …. and can be run in isolation

6. Installation Download zip file from http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/Downloads Extract file Run google-refine.exe

7. Features Clustering / Grouping use case :group taxon name and merge similar groups

8. Features Filtering use case : filter out records which do not have ‘museum’ / ‘university’ / ‘marine’ in data provider name

9. Features Data Exclusion use case : exclude records that have been faceted / filtered

10. Features Extending Data use case :add ISO country code column use case :add column(s) by parsing taxon name

11. Features Reconciling Data use case :retrieve associated names from ‘WORMS’

12. Features Save / Replay User Actions use case :extract scientific names from name labels

13. Features Build Extensions use case :BioVeL Extension - interaction with Taverna - add additional functionality specific to the BioVeL context (e.g ECAT Name Parser)

14. Future Possibilities remote server could be deployed as a remote server with the possibility to use shared resources (extensions, data, history actions)

15. Future Possibilities integration with existing applications, either as a module or using REST API calls

16. Future Possibilities central application which can be used to run scripts, call web services and even interact with software applications

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