OpenRefine / OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Store quantities with precision values
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Module: Frontend
Type: Feature Request
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Description
In #1158 @thadguidry mentioned that it would be nice to store the precision of floating-point values in OpenRefine. That would definitely be useful for Wikidata integration as Wikibase stores precisions for all the quantities it holds.
This is a non-trivial change as it involves:
- changing the model to allow for these precisions to be stored
- updating the importers and the value conversion mechanisms to produce these precisions
- updating the exporters whose format would benefit from this feature
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading issue #1158 and mapping how OpenRefine models floating-point values. Then inspect the model, importers, value conversion mechanisms, and exporters named here. Done means precisions can be stored, produced during import and conversion, and emitted by formats that support them.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100