[Dedupe-news] Project Dedupe Newsletter #3

[Lee T. <lti...@gm...>]

Good afternoon!

Again, thanks for your continued support, welcome to Project Dedupe's 3nd
edition! Still going to stick to the template...

What's been going on since the last Newsletter;
A few users have shown an interest in developing the
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Web_GUI this page hasn't got any
meat/structure to it yet so please feel free to add your $0.02
I've been tackling a new challenge to identify duplicate companies based on
a fairly specific set of criteria; the approach has been to generate a key
based on a primitive phonetic algorithm and some 'home-brew' regular
expressions. I've managed to build a prototype using mySQL and php which
will hopefully be available as an online demo soon (and the source code on
subversoin of course!)

What's next;
As previously mentioned the code and an online demo from my investigations
this week will hopefully be posted
Some meat should be added to the Web GUI page(s) on the wiki
Discussion should commence on what toolkit (if any) may be used for
developing the Web GUI
I've been very busy this week and slightly sidetracked so these are still
'to come'...
Hopefully v0.1 of the file in/out function for visual basic will be posted
to Subversion
Hopefully v0.1 of the country extraction function for visual basic will be
posted to Subversion
If you haven't already, please register on the wiki and write a few lines
about yourself (if you could include where you're from (hopefully having
members from different countries will enable us to develop a smarter
application), what interests you about this project and what you may be able
to contribute) on your user page
(http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php?title=User:username&action=edit
replacing username with your usersname)

Some stats;
There are now 7 users registered on the wiki (welcome to the 3 new users
since the last newsletter!) and 3 users registered as developers on
sourceforge (if you need me to register you as a developer on sourceforge so
you can post to subversoin etc please drop me an e-mail)
The main page has seen over 2,200 hits since launch (still seems like a lot
of people are hitting the site, possibly even bookmarking it, but aren't yet
drawn in enough to register/contribute)
The most recently edited pages are;
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Web_GUI
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php?title=User:Macvijay1985
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Main_Page
<http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Programming_languages>
<http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Talk:Match_Levels>
This, and all previously archived newsletters can be viewed at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=48618

Thanks

Lee (ltickett)

Project Dedupe
http://dedupe.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dedupe