Thanks, @dshorthouse - OpenRefine is certainly promising for our needs in this and in many other situations for handling data federation and linkage. If we are indeed to recognise and link references to collections based on shared attributes, it strongly reinforces the need for clarity and good alignment between 1) our definition of what a “collection” is and what it means for us to say we are referring to the same collection, 2) the data standards and attributes we use to describe a collection, and 3) how we adopt OpenRefine or similar protocols.
I see you have just deployed an OpenRefine reconciliation endpoint for Bloodhound. Are there any immediate lessons to apply to collection reconciliation?