Installing the reconciliation service

Requirements

The Wikibase instance should have:

An associated SPARQL query service;
Some special properties and items to represent its type system, by analogy to the one in place in Wikidata with instance of (P31) and subclass of (P279), with a root type such as entity (Q35120);

In addition it is also recommended that the Wikibase instance uses the CirrusSearch extension (ElasticSearch-based search engine).

Configuration

The configuration of the service is done in a Python file config.py. A sample configuration file is provided for Wikidata, config_wikidata.py.

Installing with Docker

You can run this service with docker. First, clone the repository and go to its root directory:

git clone https://github.com/wetneb/openrefine-wikibase
cd openrefine-wikibase

Then, copy the sample config_docker.py to config.py and modify the copy to point to the Wikibase instance of your choice.

Finally, start the service:

docker-compose up

On Windows you will need to accept the Windows Firewall popup to expose the port 8000 where the service runs.

You can then access the landing page of your new reconciliation service at http://localhost:8000/.

To use it in OpenRefine, you can add the reconciliation service (in the “Start reconciling” dialog) with the address “http://localhost:8000/en/api”. You can then use this reconciliation service to match data to items stored in your Wikibase instance.

Installing manually

It is possible to run this web service locally. You will need Python 3.7 or later and a redis instance.

Clone this repository, either with git (git clone https://github.com/wetneb/openrefine-wikibase) or by downloading the repository from Github as an archive
It is recommended to set up a virtualenv to isolate the dependencies of the software from the other python packages installed on your computer. On a UNIX system, python3 -m venv .venv and source .venv/bin/activate will do. On a Windows system, python.exe -m venv venvname followed by venvnameScriptsactivate should work.
Install the Python dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
Copy the configuration file provided: cp config_wikidata.py config.py (copy config_wikidata.py config.py on Windows)
Edit the configuration file config.py so that redis_client contains the correct settings to access your redis instance. The default parameters should be fine if you are running redis locally on the default port.
Finally, run the instance with python app.py. The service will be available at http://localhost:8000/en/api.

On Debian-based systems, it looks as follows:

sudo apt-get install git redis-server python3 virtualenv
git clone https://github.com/wetneb/openrefine-wikibase
cd openrefine-wikibase
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt