Master Index Normalization and Standardization Structure Properties (Repository) (Configuring Sun Master Indexes (Repository))

Configuring Sun Master Indexes (Repository)

Master Index Normalization and Standardization Structure Properties (Repository)

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 national domains for data to be standardized. For a single national domain, you only need to specify the national domain 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 national domain 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 national domain 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 national domain.

The following rules apply to the multiple domain selector:

You can specify a value of “Default” for the identifying field. The corresponding national domain is used if the identifying field is blank, contains the value “Default”, or contains a value not defined by any of the value elements.
If a “Default” value is not defined, the system default national domain, United States, is used as the default.

For more information about the fields and elements described in the following table, see Understanding the Sun Match Engine.

Configuration Editor Field	XML File Element or Attribute	Description
Type	standardization-type	The type of standardization to perform on the source fields. This is specific to the type of data being processed.
Domain Selector	domain-selector	The Java class used by the standardization engine to determine the national domain of the data being processed. For the Sun Match Engine, the following classes can be specified. If no selector is specified, the default is US. The Sun Match Engine supports Australian, French, United Kingdom, and United States national domains. Possible values for this field are: com.stc.eindex.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorAU com.stc.eindex.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorFR com.stc.eindex.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorUK com.stc.eindex.matching.impl. SingleDomainSelectorUS com.stc.eindex.matching.impl. MultipleDomainSelector
Locale Field Name	locale-field-name	The ePath to an identifying field in the object structure that identifies which of the defined national domains (element `locale-codes`) to use. If no field is specified for the Sun Match Engine, the standardization engine defaults to the United States, regardless of whether any national domains are defined. This field must be contained in the object that contains the fields defined for normalization in this structure.
Unnormalized Source	unnormalized-source- field-name	The field that contains the data to be normalized. The field is designated by its ePath (for example, Person.FirstName).
Unnormalized Standardization Component	standardized-object- field-id	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.
Normalized Standardization Component	standardized-object- field-id	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.
Normalized Target	standardized-target- field-name	The field that will store the normalized data. The field is designated by its ePath (for example, Person.Alias[*].StdLastName).