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4 | 4 | Metafacture is an ETL data processing toolkit with a focus on library metadata.
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5 | 5 | It provides a versatile set of tools for reading, writing and transforming data.
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| -It was initially developed by DNB starting in 2011 and is maintained since 2019 by hbz. |
| 6 | +It was initially developed by the [DNB](https://www.dnb.de) starting in 2011 and is maintained since 2019 by [hbz](https://www.hbz-nrw.de/). |
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8 | 8 | Metafacture can be used as a stand-alone application or as a Java library in other applications.
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| -The name Metafacture is a portmanteau of the words metadata and manufacture. |
| 9 | +The name "Metafacture" is a portmanteau of the words metadata and manufacture. |
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11 | 11 | In this tutorial we are going to teach how to use Metafacture to perform simple and advanced data processing tasks.
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| -At the beginning we will use the web application [Metafacture Playground](https://metafacture.org/playground/). So no |
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| -installation is needed. The Playground is a web interface that helps you getting started. |
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| -It is useful to test, share and export Metafacture workflows. |
| 13 | +In the first lessons, we will use the [Metafacture Playground](https://metafacture.org/playground/), a web application that helps you getting started. It is useful to test, share and export Metafacture workflows and requires no local installation. |
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| -Starting with [Chapter 6](./06_MetafactureCLI.md) we can switch from using Playground to running Metafacture on our own hardware. |
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| -But the examples are still provided in the Playground. |
| 15 | +Starting with [Chapter 6](./06_MetafactureCLI.md), we can switch from using Playground to running Metafacture on our own hardware but the examples are still provided in the Playground. |
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| -To run Metafacture on your local machine you need a Linux/Unix Bash Shell (part of every Linux, MacOS and Windows >=10) with Metafacture Core installed. In this course we are not teaching you how to use the command line. For that see: [Chapter 6](./06_MetafactureCLI.md) |
| 17 | +To run Metafacture on your local machine you need a Linux/Unix Bash Shell (part of every Linux, MacOS and Windows >=10) with metafacture-core installed. See [Chapter 6](./06_MetafactureCLI.md) for details. |
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