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Gregg Webster — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:42:15 -0000

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-Welcome to the Oyster information center.    
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-Oyster is an entity resolution tool originally developed and continually managed by John Talburt Ph.D.   Dr. Talburt who has been an expert in the entity resolution and information quality arena for many year.  He started down his current path in 1971 as a assistant professor of mathematics at Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia.  Then in 1977 he made a jump and opened up a Data Management Services Company, and soon was the CIO of ‘Professional Computer Software’.  His desire to teach and the structure of the university system would draw him back and in 1983 he where he start teaching at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   
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-But his love of data quality would again take him away from the university system and in 1994 until 2004 he worked for Acxiom where he would be the leader for new products and solutions.  
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-In 2005 he returned to The University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he remains today as the leader for the Information Quality program and the Principal Investigator for many grants dealing with data quality and entity resolution.  It was a combination of both aspects of what he had worked for, teaching and information quality research.  In 2009 Dr. Talburt started programming and working on his solution to entity resolution, an opensource application named ‘Oyster’.   Oyster is under a GPL license and is available for download here on sourceforge.
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-Dr Talburt has written some books on data quality including his current publication available  at many book sellers and amazon.com.  ”Entity Resolution and Information Quality“
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-If you are a student or enthsiast of Information Quality you might want to also check out the UALR degree programs in IQ at http://ualr.edu/informationquality/   Finally, please  feel free to download oyster and use it and if you have questions you can either post on this web site or email me at glwebster@ualr.edu.
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-Gregg Webster
-I.T. Systems ERIQ @ UALR
+The OYSTER Open Source Project is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ) at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  It is intended to provide an entity resolution system that includes functionality for entity identity information management (EIIM).  Originally developed as a teaching tool, it now has enough capability to support record linking, EIIM, and master data management (MDM) processes in small to medium-sized organizations.  
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+OYSTER is designed to be easily configurable through the use of several, run-time XML scripts that define such things as the format and locations of reference sources to be processed, access to previously defined identity structures, identity rules and associated matching algorithms, as well as many parameters that adjust system performance to particular ER applications.  These scripts allow OYSTER to be configured to run in different ER modes or architectures including record linking/merge-purge, identity resolution, identity capture, and identity update.
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+OYSTER was first introduced in the textbook Entity Resolution and Information Quality by Dr. John R. Talburt (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011).  Dr. Talburt, a Professor of Information Science and Director of the ERIQ Research Center at UALR, is the OYSTER Project director.  A number of ERIQ staff members and student research assistants have made significant contribution to the project including Eric Nelson, Fumiko Kobayashi, Yinle Zhou, Gregg Webster, Brenda Barnhill, Payam Mahmoudian, Nathan Gray, Melody Penning, and Hailin Tang.  Much of the initial development of OYSTER was supported by the Arkansas Research Center (ARC) of the Arkansas Department of Education directed by Dr. Neal Gibson and it Research and Development Director, Dr. Greg Holland.
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WikiPage Home modified by Gregg Webster

Gregg Webster — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:50:06 -0000

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 Welcome to the Oyster information center.    
 
-Oyster is an entity resolution tool originally developed and continually managed by John Talburt Ph.D.   Dr. Talburt who has been an expert in the entity resolution and information quality arena for many year.  He started down his current path in 1971 as a assistant professor of mathematics at Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia.  Then in 1977 he made a jump and opened up a Data Management Services Company, and soon was the CIO of ‘Professional Computer Software’.  But his love of teaching and the structure of the university system would draw him back and in 1983 he would start teaching at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   
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-His love of data quality would again take him away from the university system and in 1994 until 2004 he worked for Acxiom where he would be the leader for new products and solutions.  
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-In 2005 he returned to The University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he remains today as the leader for the Information Quality program and the Principal Investigator for many grants dealing with data quality and entity resolution.   In 2009 Dr. Talburt started programming and working on his solution to entity resolution, named ‘Oyster’.   Oyster is an open source program under a GPL license and is available for download here on sourceforge.
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-Dr Talburt has written some books on data quality including his current publication avaliable at many book sellers and amazon.com.  ”Entity Resolution and Information Quality“
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-Please  feel free to download oyster and use it and if you have questions youc an either post on this web site or email me at glwebster@ualr.edu.
+Oyster is an entity resolution tool originally developed and continually managed by John Talburt Ph.D.   Dr. Talburt who has been an expert in the entity resolution and information quality arena for many year.  He started down his current path in 1971 as a assistant professor of mathematics at Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia.  Then in 1977 he made a jump and opened up a Data Management Services Company, and soon was the CIO of ‘Professional Computer Software’.  His desire to teach and the structure of the university system would draw him back and in 1983 he where he start teaching at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   
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+But his love of data quality would again take him away from the university system and in 1994 until 2004 he worked for Acxiom where he would be the leader for new products and solutions.  
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+In 2005 he returned to The University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he remains today as the leader for the Information Quality program and the Principal Investigator for many grants dealing with data quality and entity resolution.  It was a combination of both aspects of what he had worked for, teaching and information quality research.  In 2009 Dr. Talburt started programming and working on his solution to entity resolution, an opensource application named ‘Oyster’.   Oyster is under a GPL license and is available for download here on sourceforge.
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+Dr Talburt has written some books on data quality including his current publication available  at many book sellers and amazon.com.  ”Entity Resolution and Information Quality“
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+If you are a student or enthsiast of Information Quality you might want to also check out the UALR degree programs in IQ at http://ualr.edu/informationquality/   Finally, please  feel free to download oyster and use it and if you have questions you can either post on this web site or email me at glwebster@ualr.edu.
 
 Gregg Webster
 I.T. Systems ERIQ @ UALR

WikiPage Home modified by Gregg Webster

Gregg Webster — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:53:44 -0000

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 Welcome to the Oyster information center.    
 
-Oyster is an entity resolution tool originally developed and continually managed by John Talburt Ph.D.   Dr. Talburt has been an expert in the entity resolution and information quality arena for many year.  He started down his current path in 1971 as a assistant professor of mathematics at Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia.  Then in 1977 he made a jump and opened up a Data Management Services Company, and soon was the CIO of ‘Professional Computer Software’.  But his love of teaching and the structure of the university system would draw him back and in 1983 he would start teaching at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   
+Oyster is an entity resolution tool originally developed and continually managed by John Talburt Ph.D.   Dr. Talburt who has been an expert in the entity resolution and information quality arena for many year.  He started down his current path in 1971 as a assistant professor of mathematics at Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia.  Then in 1977 he made a jump and opened up a Data Management Services Company, and soon was the CIO of ‘Professional Computer Software’.  But his love of teaching and the structure of the university system would draw him back and in 1983 he would start teaching at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   
 
 His love of data quality would again take him away from the university system and in 1994 until 2004 he worked for Acxiom where he would be the leader for new products and solutions.

WikiPage Home modified by Gregg Webster

Gregg Webster — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:51:30 -0000

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-Welcome to Oyster Entity Resolution.
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-This site will grow and we will put our latest code (and past code) on this site for download. Please feel free to enter teh discussion and talk and write to other oyster users. As a community we realize that although we are designing and programming Oyster it is ultimately you who helps us to make it a better product.
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-Thanks and enjoy,
+Welcome to the Oyster information center.    
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+Oyster is an entity resolution tool originally developed and continually managed by John Talburt Ph.D.   Dr. Talburt has been an expert in the entity resolution and information quality arena for many year.  He started down his current path in 1971 as a assistant professor of mathematics at Columbus State University in Columbus Georgia.  Then in 1977 he made a jump and opened up a Data Management Services Company, and soon was the CIO of ‘Professional Computer Software’.  But his love of teaching and the structure of the university system would draw him back and in 1983 he would start teaching at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.   
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+His love of data quality would again take him away from the university system and in 1994 until 2004 he worked for Acxiom where he would be the leader for new products and solutions.  
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+In 2005 he returned to The University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he remains today as the leader for the Information Quality program and the Principal Investigator for many grants dealing with data quality and entity resolution.   In 2009 Dr. Talburt started programming and working on his solution to entity resolution, named ‘Oyster’.   Oyster is an open source program under a GPL license and is available for download here on sourceforge.
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+Dr Talburt has written some books on data quality including his current publication avaliable at many book sellers and amazon.com.  ”Entity Resolution and Information Quality“
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+Please  feel free to download oyster and use it and if you have questions youc an either post on this web site or email me at glwebster@ualr.edu.
 
 Gregg Webster
 I.T. Systems ERIQ @ UALR

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Gregg Webster — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:34:49 -0000

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 Welcome to Oyster Entity Resolution.
 
 
-This site will grow and evolve and we will put our latest code (and past code) on this site for download. Please feel free to enter teh discussion and talk and write to other oyster users. As a community we realize that although we are designing and programming Oyster it is ultimately you who helps us to make it a better product.
+This site will grow and we will put our latest code (and past code) on this site for download. Please feel free to enter teh discussion and talk and write to other oyster users. As a community we realize that although we are designing and programming Oyster it is ultimately you who helps us to make it a better product.
 
 Thanks and enjoy,

WikiPage Home modified by Gregg Webster

Gregg Webster — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:43:58 -0000

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-Welcome to your wiki!
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-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
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-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/oysterer/home/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
+Welcome to Oyster Entity Resolution.
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+This site will grow and evolve and we will put our latest code (and past code) on this site for download. Please feel free to enter teh discussion and talk and write to other oyster users. As a community we realize that although we are designing and programming Oyster it is ultimately you who helps us to make it a better product.
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+Thanks and enjoy,
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+Gregg Webster
+I.T. Systems ERIQ @ UALR
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WikiPage Home modified by Gregg Webster

Gregg Webster — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:05:09 -0000

Welcome to your wiki! This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage]. The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/oysterer/home/markdown_syntax/) syntax.