Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-7-11
[Post from Infoglide] Identity Resolution: When Name and Address Aren’t Enough
“Not long ago, Knowledge Integrity president, David Loshin, suggested that you have to spend considerable effort to standardize attributes of entities in order to exploit identity resolution effectively. He went on to explain multiple types of name standardizations to demonstrate just how complex the process can be.”
Mortgage Technology: The Problem of Dirty Data
“Dirty data is everywhere. There’s not a financial services company around that doesn’t have a problem with dirty data — data fields that are empty, incomplete or filled with non-sensible or otherwise just plain wrong information. Over 25% of critical data of Fortune 1000 companies will continue to be inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated over the next two years, according to Gartner Inc., a research and advisory firm. Gartner predicts that three-quarters of large enterprises will make little to no progress towards improving data quality until 2010.”
Data Governance and Data Quality Insider: The Soft Costs of Information Quality
“Choosing data quality technology simply on price could mean that you end up paying far more than you need to, thanks to the huge differences in how the products solve the problems. While your instinct may tell you to focus solely on the price of your data quality tool, your big costs come in less visible areas – like time to implement, re-usability, time spend preprocessing data so that it reads into the tool, performance and overall learning curve.”
Homeland Security Watch: Advisers to Obama, McCain Camps Opine on HLS Priorities
“Congressional Quarterly’s CQ Homeland Security ran a story revealing views likely held by the presidential candidates on homeland security priorities. Neither candidate has dedicated much airtime to the topic of homeland security, but both have formed teams of volunteer policy advisors focused on developing homeland security positions. This week’s story quotes Ruchi Bhowmik of Obama’s Senate staff campaign and Lee Carosi Dunn from McCain’s staff. Neither spoke as representing the presidential campaigns, but both are accurate indicators of the candidates’ views.”
PogoWasRight.org: Microsoft, Google back broad privacy legislation
“Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress should pass basic privacy legislation to protect information about consumers, such as the data being gathered about people’s Web surfing habits in order to pinpoint Internet advertising.”
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