Version 0.2 of the specification released

We are happy to announce that we have released the version 0.2 of the specifications. This version adds a range of mostly backwards-compatible features to the original API used by OpenRefine (which was released as version 0.1). Here is a highlight of the most noticeable changes:

• Services can require authentication using a range of methods, taken from the OpenAPI specifications;
• Exposing a type hierarchy has been made possible;
• Reconciliation candidates can expose individual reconciliation features, for cases where the global matching score is not precise enough;
• Reconciling without supplying entity names (but only properties) was enabled.

See the full list of changes for more details.

After this release, our intention is to rework the structure of the API to make it more compliant with the REST principles. This will result in various incompatible changes but should make it easier to implement reconciliation services in modern web frameworks. As always, feel free to join the discussion on our mailing list, GitHub and in our monthly video meetings.