Entity Resolution and Information Quality

Download Oyster on Sourceforge!

glw7 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:56:31 +0000

Oyster has now settled into its new home on Sourceforge. ( http://sourceforge.net/p/oysterer/home/Home/ ) This will be the place to download the run time jar files, oyster code, run time gui and the gui code. As Oyster continues to grow and we needed to find a place that can be a central place for our download and information home. We hope that you will continue to enjoy the use of Oyster and give us the needed feedback to continue its growth. Thank you for your continued support.

Oyster GUI Beta 0.8.0 avaliable for download!

glw7 — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:59:27 +0000

The first release of the Oyster GUI interface is avaliable for download. See the downloads page to get it today!

Read about Oyster from the creator, Dr. John Talburt

glw7 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:33:07 +0000

This is part of Dr. Talburts book talking about Oyster. This link will take you to Google books. "Oyster from the book 'Entity Resolution and Information Quality"

Oyster now on SourceForge

glw7 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:24:37 +0000

As the Oyster project grows we now use SourceForge to distribute the latest versions of Oyster. Entity Resolution has never been easier or more convenient. To find us just go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/oysterer/ or go to sourceforge and search for Oyster.

Version 3.1 of OYSTER Released June 24, 2011

jrt5 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:48:30 +0000

A new version (3.1) of the OYSTER, an open source entity resolution system, is now available on the Downloads page of the ERIQ website (http://ualr.edu/eriq). The 3.1 version includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements over previous versions. Download the new version of Oyster today!

ERIQ Director gives Entity Resolution Tutorial at MIT

jrt5 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:23:06 +0000

Dr. John Talburt, Director of the ERIQ Research Center, gave a tutorial on Entity and Identity Resolution at the 4th Annual Information Quality Industry Symposium (IQIS 2010) held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, July 14-16, 2010. Interest in entity and identity resolution have been growing because they are key processes in the current movement to create information exchange hubs in health care, law enforcement, education, and the military. In his talk, Dr. Talburt discussed the distinction between entity reference equivalence and entity reference matching, the false negative problem, and three basic ER models - Fellegi-Sunter, Stanford Entity Resolution Framework (SERF), and Algebraic. He also announced that the ERIQ Research Center will launch an open-source entity resolution project called OYSTER to be available on Source Forge later this year.

15th Annual ICIQ Conference in Little Rock, AR, November 12-14, 2010

jrt5 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:45:23 +0000

The Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) will host the 15th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) on November 12-14, 2010. The ICIQ attracts researchers and practitioners in the academic, public and private sectors from across the globe. The 2010 conference is jointly sponsored by the MIT Information Quality Program and the UALR Information Quality Graduate Program. UALR is the only U.S. university to offer graduate degree programs in information quality.

Infoglide Software and ERIQ Lab Sign Collaboration Agreement

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:40:32 +0000

Infoglide Software Corporation of Austin, Texas (www.infoglide.com), and the UALR ERIQ Laboratory signed a collaboration agreement providing ERIQ access to Infoglide’s Identity Resolution Engine (IRE) software for evaluation and research. IRE is Infoglide’s patented identity resolution technology that allows for data matching, auto classification, and data cleansing in applications for data quality and master data management (MDM), including customer data integration (CDI) and product information management (PIM). “We’re proud to be working with a leading center of advanced research focused on entity resolution and information quality,” said Robert Barker, senior vice president at Infoglide Software. “The work in which Dr. Talburt and his team of faculty and students are engaged will continue to push the state of technology forward.” Dr. John R. Talburt, ERIQ Director, is a regular contributor to Identity Resolution Daily, an Internet Blog sponsored by Infoglide. As part of the collaboration, Infoglide will fund a scholarship for students in the UALR Information Quality Graduate Program.

Dr. John Talburt Receives DAMA International 2008 Academic Award

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:35:47 +0000

The Data Management Association (DAMA) International announced that it will present its 2008 Academic Award to Dr. John R. Talburt, UALR Professor of Information Science and Acxiom Chair of Information Quality and also Executive Director of the UALR ERIQ Laboratory for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality.

The Academic Award is given annually to a member from academia who has done outstanding research or theoretical contributions in the area of information resource management or data resource management. Dr. Talburt was cited for his work over the years to advance the cause of data management, especially through his work in data and information quality. Previous recipients include Dr. E.F. Codd, Dr. Peter Chen, Dr. Richard Wang, and William H. Inmon. Dr. Talburt is scheduled to receive his award at the annual DAMA International Conference in San Diego, CA on March 17, 2008.