Roadmap

OpenRefine Roadmap

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This is a very rough outline of the future of this project.

Please be aware that none of this is carved in stone and can change any time, so check back regularly.

2.2

Feature Areas

• Importers: UI form, better format guessing, connection to GData
• Issue 85: Fixed width column importer - UI work required
• Issue 84: Add a cut and paste textbox importer - mostly UI work
• Exporters: UI for picking columns, etc.
• Issue 97: Exporting CSV should allow for optional columns
• GData specifics: oauth, etc.
• Internationalization
• Streamlining traditional features
• Issue 213: traditional find & replace
• Issue 68: "merge columns" command.
• More documentation and testing on the standard reconciliation service stuff - dfhuynh

Issues

• Issue 36: Seamless conversion of arrays into multiple columns
• Issue 75: Saveable reconciliation mappings
• Issue 87: Long running processes should serialize intermediate results ? - hard (dfhuynh)
• Issue 92: Add Columns From Freebase dialog should support constraints - design work
• Issue 74: Saveable Templates (need to be re-thought)

2.5

Feature Areas:

• Views: map, timeline, protovis charts

Issues

• Better machinery to guess and re-encode cell values (useful for fixing encoding issues)

3.0

Feature Areas:

• Collaborative editing support (really hard)
• RABJ integration (allows to distribute reconciliation loads across multiple people) - not even sure what this means

Issues:

• Issue 86: parse cell values after column split
• Issue 97: TSV/CSV exporter should allow option on which columns to export

Future

Feature Areas:

• Performance - the /project page seems to be slow now
• Column groups
• [issue 93](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/93)

Issues

• Issue 85: Graphical manipulation of widths of fixed-width column data
• Issue 90: Ability to cluster records -- to look for records that look alike and might actually be the same (useful for de-duplication)
• Issue 91: Option or preference to only show Freebase /common types in dropdowns for type and property suggestions.
• Issue 94: Map facet?

Feature Requests, Bugs, Comments, Etc.

Please add more to the issues tracker and they will end up here once they are acknowledged and assigned.