Definite cosign on Open Refine. It's intuitive and spreadsheet-like enough that a lot of people can understand it. You can do anything from standardizing state names you get from a patron form to normalizing metadata keywords for a database, so I think it'd be useful even for non-techies.

Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Metadata Librarian, Cadence Group
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library, Code 272
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Goddard Library Repository: http://gsfcir.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Terry Brady
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

I learned about Open Refine <http://openrefine.org/> at the Code4Lib conference, and it looks like it would be a great tool for normalizing data.  I worked on a few projects in the past in which this would have been very helpful.