Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-04-27
By the Infoglide Team
New York Times: Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says
“By some estimates, 100 surnames cover 85 percent of China’s citizens. Laobaixing, or “old hundred names,” is a colloquial term for the masses. By contrast, 70,000 surnames cover 90 percent of Americans. The number of Chinese family names in use has tended to shrink as China’s population has grown, a winnowing of surnames that has occurred in many cultures over time.”
OCDQ Blog: All I Really Need To Know About Data Quality I Learned In Kindergarten
“When you present the business case for your data quality initiative to executive management and other corporate stakeholders, remember the lessons of show and tell. Poor data quality is not a theoretical problem - it is a real business problem that negatively impacts the quality of decision critical enterprise information.”
BTNonline: Secure Flight Roils Booking Tech
“To facilitate the implementation of Secure Flight’s new data requirements for the travel industry, officials from the International Air Transport Association and Department of Homeland Security this year decided to use passenger data fields already used to transmit visa and passport information. TSA noted those IATA standards go into effect May 1.”
Security Systems News: Retail industry to ’speak with a single voice’
“There will now be a single entity both helping to establish best practices for loss prevention and lobbying state and federal government in regard to major security issues like organized retail crime.”
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