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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Introduction to OpenRefine</span></h2>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tuesday, February 7, 2024, at 1p ET</span></h3>
<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Introduction to OpenRefine<br>
<b>Tuesday, February 7, 2024, at 1p ET</b></span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Curious about OpenRefine?
Wondering how this popular data-cleaning tool can help you streamline your DPLA metadata workflows? </span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Please join the Outreach
and Assessment and Metadata Working Groups for an introduction to OpenRefine. </span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Attendees will:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">-Learn the basics of OpenRefine</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">-Understand what OpenRefine
is really good at/not good at</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">-Learn how OpenRefine can help you with metadata
prep for DPLA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">-Be introduced to advanced techniques such
as reconciliation</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">-Discuss workflows in a meeting-style format</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">This meeting will be led by Helen Baer, Digital
Projects Librarian at Colorado State University, a member of the Plains to Peaks Collective. No software pre-installation will be required by participants. Please feel free to reach out to Helen if you have specific use cases you’d like to focus on at this
event.</span></p>
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register here</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Iowan Old Style", "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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