Fwd: [OpenRefine] Graphical visualizations of OpenRefine workflows

[Tom Johnson]

Perhaps of interest, especially the first link to  Applied Category Theory
conference.  You will recognize some of the participants. 

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From: Antonin Delpeuch (lists) <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:51 AM
Subject: [OpenRefine] Graphical visualizations of OpenRefine workflows
To: OpenRefine <[hidden email]>

Hi all,

One of the key features of OpenRefine is its ability to extract
sequences of operations from a project and replay them on another. But
this functionality is far from perfect: working with the JSON
representation of operations can be cumbersome. It is hard to tell what
a workflow does. Tweaking a workflow can break it easily, and it is not
that easy to share it with others.

One project I have been working on is trying to devise a graphical
representation of OpenRefine workflows, so that users could inspect them
and manipulate them graphically.

I am presenting this project on Friday at the Applied Category Theory
conference:
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ACT2019/
Category theory is a mathematical theory which can be used among others
to design graphical representations for mathematical objects.

The (academic) paper can be read here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05937.pdf
It is primarily written for computer scientists and mathematicians, not
the OpenRefine community. I am hoping to write something more
explanatory for the OR community, giving examples of representations of
workflows, and discussing the possible implementations of these ideas.

Any feedback would be very welcome!

Antonin

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