L O D 2   G o o g l e   R e f i n e
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*IMPORTANT NOTICE*: 

LODGrefine (based on Google Refine) has been migrated to LODRefine (based on OpenRefine) 
and will be no longer maintained here. Please checkout (and clone/fork) LODRefine here: 
https://github.com/sparkica/OpenRefine/tree/lodrefine

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What is this Google Refine?
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Google Refine is a power tool that allows you to load data, understand it,
clean it up, reconcile it internally, and augment it with data coming from
Freebase or other web sources. All with the comfort and privacy of 
your own computer.

What is LOD2 Google Refine?
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LOD2 Google Refine is a version of Google Refine, which includes some extensions
to help you deal with Linked Open Data. With these extensions you can:
- reconcile your data with DBpedia or RDF file or SPARQL endpoint
- to extend your reconciled data with data from DBpedia
- to export data into RDF
- to extract entities from full text descriptions in your data 
- and more...


Licensing and legal issues
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Google Refine is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license
located in the LICENSE.txt. See that file also for information on open source
libraries that Google Refine depends on.


LOD2 Google Refine is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license
located in the LICENSE.txt. See that file also for information on open source
libraries that LOD2 Google Refine depends on.



Credits for Google Refine
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Google Refine was created by Metaweb Technologies, Inc. and originally written
and conceived by David Huynh <dfhuynh@google.com>. Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
was acquired by Google, Inc. in July 2010.

This is the full list of contributors (in chronological order):

 - David Huynh <dfhuynh@google.com>
 - Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom@google.com>
 - Vishal Talwar <vtalwar@google.com> 
 - Jeff Fry <jfry@google.com>
 - Will Moffat <wdm@google.com>
 - James Home <jameshome@google.com>
 - Iain Sproat <iainsproat@gmail.com>
 - Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
 - Heather Campbell <campbellh@google.com>
 - Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
 - Paul Makepeace <paulm@paulm.com>
 - Tomaž Šolc <tomaz.solc@zemanta.com>
 - Gabriel Sjoberg <GabrielSjoberg@gmail.com>
 - Rod Salazar <rodrod.salazar@gmail.com>
 - pxb <pxb1988@gmail.com>
 
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Credits for extensions
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RDF-extension by Linked Data Research Centre (DERI Galway)
Main functionalities: Reconciliating against SPARQL endpoints or RDF dumps, 
exporting to RDF

Contributors:
Fadi Maali <fadi.maalideri.org>
Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>

More information at: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/grefine-rdf-extension/



DBpedia-extension by Zemanta
Main functionalities:  Extending data with data from DBpedia, 
extracting entities from full text via Zemanta API

Contributors:
Mateja Verlic <mateja.verlic@gmail.com>

More information at: http://code.zemanta.com/sparkica/