Master Index Normalization and
Standardization Structure Properties
The following table lists and describes the Configuration Editor
fields and their corresponding XML elements that define the fields
to be normalized or standardized in the master index application.
You can specify one or more variants for data to be standardized.
A variant is a subset of a data type. For example, if the data type
is address, variants are defined for addresses from different countries.
The rule set for each country is called a variant. For a single variant,
you only need to specify the variant if you need to standardize data
that is not from the United States. If you are standardizing data
from multiple countries, use the multiple domain selector. This requires
that one field in the object structure identify which variant to
use for each field that will be standardized. For example, the value
of the Country field in a system record could be used to tell the
standardization engine which variant to use for a particular set
of data. If you specified the multiple domain selector in the domain-selector element, you must also define the identifying field and
then map the values that can be populated into that field to their
corresponding variant.
The
following rules apply to the multiple domain selector:
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You can specify a value of “Default”
for the identifying field. The corresponding variant is used if the
identifying field is blank, contains the value “Default”,
or contains a value not defined by any of the value elements.
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If a “Default” value is not defined, the
system default variant, United States, is used as the default.
For more information about the fields and elements described
in the following table, see Master Index Standardization Engine Reference.
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Configuration Editor Field
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XML File Element or Attribute
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Description
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Data Type
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standardization-type
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The type of standardization to perform on the source fields.
This is specific to the type of data being processed.
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Domain Selector
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domain-selector
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The Java class used by the standardization engine to determine
the variant of the data being processed. For the Master Index Standardization Engine, the
following classes can be specified. If no selector is specified, the
default is US. The Master Index Standardization Engine supports Australian, French, United
Kingdom, and United States variants. Possible values for this field
are:
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com.sun.mdm.index.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorAU
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com.sun.mdm.index.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorFR
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com.sun.mdm.index.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorUK
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com.sun.mdm.index.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorUS
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com.sun.mdm.index.matching.impl. MultipleDomainSelector
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Variant Field Name
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locale-field-name
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The ePath to an identifying field in the object structure that
identifies which of the defined variants (element locale-codes)
to use. If no field is specified for the Master Index Standardization Engine, the standardization
engine defaults to the United States, regardless of whether any variants are
defined. This field must be contained in the object that contains
the fields defined for normalization in this structure.
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Unnormalized
Source
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unnormalized-source- field-name
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The field that contains the data to be normalized. The field
is designated by its ePath (for example, Person.FirstName).
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Unnormalized Standardization Component
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standardized-object- field-id
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An identification code that identifies the field to normalize
to the standardization engine. This ID is specific to the standardization
engine and must correspond to a standardization component defined
by that engine.
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Normalized Standardization Component
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standardized-object- field-id
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An identification code that identifies the field that contains
the normalized data to the standardization engine. This is specific
to the standardization engine in use and must correspond to a standardization
component defined by that engine.
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Normalized
Target
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standardized-target- field-name
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The field that will store the normalized data. The field is
designated by its ePath (for example, Person.Alias[*].StdLastName).
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