[Dedupe-news] Project Dedupe Newsletter #4

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

Good afternoon!

Again, thanks for your continued support, welcome to Project Dedupe's 4th
edition!

What's been going on since the last Newsletter;
My time has all been focussed on the php dedupe script which is of course
available on Subversion (link in the navigation panel of the wiki). Really
feel this is progressing well- would appreciate anyone's input on the code
so far; the files loop, prepare and function .php are all used in the
identification of match_groups. elect_master and commit_dupe .php are then
used to walk through the match_groups flagging master records and false
positives. There are a number of configurables but some stuff still needs to
be progressed- if you've got a dataset you wish to try running the script on
but can't fathom how to apply these scripts please give me a shout!

What's next;
I will continue to focus my attention/time on the php scripts but all of the
bits on the below list still need progressing!
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 9 users registered on the wiki (welcome to the 2 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 2,900 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/Algorithms
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Programming_languages
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Existing_software

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