Thanks very much Charles, and everyone else who responded. I'm gathering your ideas/examples and will take to IT. Hopefully it's sufficient!
Katherine O'Brien (She / Her)
Application Administrator, Online Services
The University of Notre Dame Australia
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From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Brown-Roberts, Charles Glen <00000240af51ff75-dmarc-request_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG>
Sent: 03 December 2025 10:48 PM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG>
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenRefine - seeking advice for institutional devices
Hello,
I contacted our digital scholars lab at the University of Miami, here is their response:
Good questions, what do we do here …in the digital scholars lab??
At IDSC we have a standard list of packages on the supercomputers and if a researcher wants a non-installed package, they have to make a request and we do the vetting before installing … then it becomes available to everyone …
Note that maintaining a package list on a supercomputer (one) is easier than maintaining packages on lab machines (many).
Charles
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Best Regards,
Charles Brown-Roberts
Application Software Developer II
University of Miami
Web and Application Development, Richter Library
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From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Wil Blake <wil.blake_at_FCPL.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG>
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenRefine - seeking advice for institutional devices
Does your IT environment include a separate DMZ or VLAN "sandbox" for "untrusted" institutional devices, and can you temporarily use OpenRefine in an "untrusted" capacity while the Defender compatibility issue sorts itself out?
Does your IT environment support Linux (or Mac OSX or a HyperV VM Guest) and can the OpenRefine Linux (or MacOS) version meet both the CPE requirements and your needs? The OpenRefine Linux version might run alongside Windows in a Microsoft WSL2 or HyperV Linux Guest OS.
Working with institutional security requirements is a never-ending saga for developers, researchers, archivists, etc. I do understand the need to avoid costly and embarrassing security breaches, though sometimes security constraints appear rather arbitrary. Your collaborative approach is a good long term play to maintain relationships and establish a groundwork for compliant software installation in the future.
Good luck,
Wil Blake
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