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Understanding the Master Index Standardization Engine

Configuring a Standardization Structure for Business Names

For free–form business name fields, the source fields you define for parsing should include the standardization components that are predefined for parsing and normalization. For example, fields containing business information can include any of the field components listed in Business Name Standardization Components. The target fields can include any of these parsed fields. Follow the instructions under Defining Master Index Standardization Rules in Configuring Sun Master Indexes to define fields for standardization. For the standardization-type element, enter BusinessName. For a list of field IDs to use in the standardized-object-field-id element, see Business Name Standardization Components.

Note –

In the default configuration, the rules defined for the address data type assume that all input fields must be parsed as well as normalized. Thus, there is no need to configure fields only for normalization.

A sample standardization structure for business names is shown below. This structure parses a business name field into these standard business name fields: name, organization type, association type, sector, industry, and URL. Note that there is no domain selector specified, which would normally default to the United States domain; however, since business names are not variant dependent, it is irrelevant here.


<free-form-texts-to-standardize>
   <group standardization-type="BusinessName">
      <unstandardized-source-fields>
         <unstandardized-source-field-name>Company.Name    
         </unstandardized-source-field-name>
      </unstandardized-source-fields>
      <standardization-targets>
         <target-mapping>
            <standardized-object-field-id>PrimaryName
            </standardized-object-field-id>
            <standardized-target-field-name>Company.Name_Name
            </standardized-target-field-name>
         </target-mapping>
         <target-mapping>
            <standardized-object-field-id>OrgTypekeyword
            </standardized-object-field-id>
            <standardized-target-field-name>Company.Name_OrgType
            </standardized-target-field-name>
         </target-mapping>
         <target-mapping>
            <standardized-object-field-id>AssocTypeKeyword
            </standardized-object-field-id>
            <standardized-target-field-name>Company.Name_AssocType
            </standardized-target-field-name>
         </target-mapping>
         <target-mapping>
            <standardized-object-field-id>IndustrySectorList
            </standardized-object-field-id>
            <standardized-target-field-name>Company.Name_Sector
            </standardized-target-field-name>
         </target-mapping>
         <target-mapping>
            <standardized-object-field-id>IndustryTypeKeyword
            </standardized-object-field-id>
            <standardized-target-field-name>Company.Name_Industry
            </standardized-target-field-name>
         </target-mapping>
         <target-mapping>
            <standardized-object-field-id>Url
            </standardized-object-field-id>
            <standardized-target-field-name>Company.Name_URL
            </standardized-target-field-name>
         </target-mapping>
      </standardization-targets>
   </group>
</free-form-texts-to-standardize>