Understanding the Master Index Standardization Engine

Person Name Standardization Components

Standardization engines use tokens to determine how each field is standardized into its individual field components and to determine how to normalize a field value. Tokens also identify the field components to external applications like a master index application. The following table lists each token generated by the Master Index Standardization Engine for person data along with the standardization component they represent. These correspond to the output symbols in the process definition file and to the output fields listed in the service type definition file. For names, you can only specify the predefined field IDs that are listed in this table unless you customize an existing variant or create a new one.

Table 1 Person Name Tokens


Token	Description
firstName	Represents a first name field.
generation	Represents a field containing generational information, such as Junior, II, or 3rd.
lastName	Represents a last name field.
middleName	Represents a middle name field.
nickname	Represents a nickname field.
salutation	Represents a field containing prefix information for a name, such as Mr., Miss, or Mrs.
title	Represents a field containing a title, such as Doctor, Reverend, or Professor.