End of year update: reconciliation in 2023

Here is a quick recap of the activity around the reconciliation API in 2023.

Our Community Group kept a sustained activity this year, with discussions happening in monthly video calls (whose minutes are published on our mailing list) and on GitHub. We continued our improvements of the specifications on various fronts: internationalization, accessibility, alignment of the protocol with REST principles, enhancing the expressiveness of reconciliation queries and more. These improvements will be published in the upcoming version of the specifications. We also published final specifications for the 0.1 and 0.2 versions of the protocol, which have broad adoption.
This year also saw various reconciliation services improve. For instance, new public reconciliation services for the Global Names database and the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) were published. The conciliator framework to develop reconciliation services was updated and so were ReconToolkit, Nomenklatura, Skohub-reconcile and TEI publisher.
Thanks to a grant from the NFDI4Culture consortium and as a follow-up to an Outreachy internship, OpenRefine improved the user experience of its reconciliation feature in many ways, which will be released in the upcoming 3.8 version of the tool.

We have surely missed some more: if so, let us know on the mailing list or during our monthly meetings. May 2024 bring more of those exciting developments!