Openrefine Shipping Manifest Instructions

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Instructions to create shipping manifest in
OpenRefine
Open filemaker and perform a find that gathers all the tapes shipped on a given date
○ Select ​File>Export records…
○ Choose to export as CSV and choose a useful save location
○ Select the fields you want (​recordingTapeNumber​,
Speakers::nameFull_fml​, ​Films::filmTitleValue​, ​recordingDate​)
■ Note that to use the OpenRefine project file I provide you must
keep this order when you export to CSV
○ Export records
Open up OpenRefine. It will open a tab in Chrome.
Choose ​Create Project> Get data from this computer> Choose Files

○ In the dialog box, find the exported CSV from FileMaker and click Open
○ Click ​Next
○ In the options window that opens, make sure that the line ​Parse next (1)
line as column headers​ option is unchecked
○ The other default options should be fine
● Now click on ​Create Project>>​ and maybe also choose a more descriptive
name, like BAMPFA MediaPreserve Manifest [date].

● In the next window, click on the link ​Undo/redo​ then click ​Apply

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○ Copy the text below in JSON TO PASTE INTO OPENREFINE
■ Be sure to copy all the brackets
○ In the large text area that comes up, paste in the JSON and click
Perform Operations
● The Speaker and Film Title columns should now be merged and separated with
semicolons
● Click ​Export​ and select Excel 2007+

●
● The file will be saved to wherever you have Downloads go and will be named
whatever your Project Name is.
● The other coumns can be renamed as needed.

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JSON TO PASTE INTO OPENREFINE (copy everything below this line including
the brackets)
[
{
"op": "core/multivalued-cell-join",
"description": "Join multi-valued cells in column Column 3",
"columnName": "Column 3",
"keyColumnName": "Column 1",
"separator": "; "
},
{
"op": "core/multivalued-cell-join",
"description": "Join multi-valued cells in column Column 2",
"columnName": "Column 2",
"keyColumnName": "Column 1",
"separator": "; "
},
{
"op": "core/column-addition",
"description": "Create column side a filename at index 1 based on column
Column 1 using expression grel:\"bampfa_\"+value+\"_a.wav\"",
"engineConfig": {
"mode": "record-based",
"facets": []
},
"newColumnName": "side a filename",
"columnInsertIndex": 1,
"baseColumnName": "Column 1",
"expression": "grel:\"bampfa_\"+value+\"_a.wav\"",
"onError": "set-to-blank"
},
{
"op": "core/column-rename",
"description": "Rename column Column 2 to speakers",
"oldColumnName": "Column 2",
"newColumnName": "speakers"
},
{
"op": "core/column-rename",
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"description": "Rename column Column 3 to film titles",
"oldColumnName": "Column 3",
"newColumnName": "film titles"
},
{
"op": "core/column-rename",
"description": "Rename column Column 4 to original recording date",
"oldColumnName": "Column 4",
"newColumnName": "original recording date"
},
{
"op": "core/column-rename",
"description": "Rename column Column 1 to original tape number",
"oldColumnName": "Column 1",
"newColumnName": "original tape number"
},
{
"op": "core/column-addition",
"description": "Create column Title at index 1 based on column original tape
number using expression grel:\"BAMPFA Audio Cassette 4000-01-\"+value",
"engineConfig": {
"mode": "record-based",
"facets": []
},
"newColumnName": "Title",
"columnInsertIndex": 1,
"baseColumnName": "original tape number",
"expression": "grel:\"BAMPFA Audio Cassette 4000-01-\"+value",
"onError": "set-to-blank"
}
]

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