Understanding the Master Index Standardization Engine

Business Organization Key Type File

The organization key type file (bizOrganizationTypeKeys.dat) is used to standardize the value of the Organization field into common organizations to which businesses belong. This helps the standardization engine recognize and process the organization types for different businesses. You can add entries to the organization key type file using the following syntax.

original-type standardized-form

The following table describes each column in the organization key type file.

Table 19 Organization Key Type File

Column 

Description 

original-type

The original value of the organization field in an input record. 

standardized-form 

The normalized version of an organization type. A zero (0) in this field indicates that the value in the first column is already in its standardized form. If this column contains a name instead of a zero, that name must also be listed in a different entry as an original type with a standardized form of “0”. 

Below is an excerpt from the organization key type file.


INC                 INCORPORATED
INCORPORATED        0
KG                  0
KK                  0
LIMITED             0
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 0
LLC                 0
LLP                 0
LP                  LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
LTD                 LIMITED