Person Name Standardization Overview

Processing data with the PersonName data type includes standardizing and matching a person’s demographic information. The Master Index Standardization Engine can the create the parsed, normalized, and phonetic values for person data. These values are needed for accurate searching and matching on person data. Several configuration files designed specifically to handle person data are included to provide processing logic for the standardization and phonetic encoding process. The Master Index Standardization Engine can phonetically encode any field you specify.

In addition, when processing person information, you might want to standardize addresses to enable searching against address information. This requires working with the address configuration files described in Rules–Based Address Data Configuration.