[okfn-labs] ANN: Major Enhancements to Nomenklatura - the Data Matching and Reconciliation Service

[Rufus Pollock]

Hi All,

I'm writing (on behalf of Friedrich who's behind this work!) to
announce a major update of Nomenklatura:

<http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/05/16/nomenklatura-matching-service-reconciliation-made-easy.html>
<https://twitter.com/OKFNLabs/status/336865382046507009>

Nomenklatura is a simple service that makes it easy to maintain a
canonical list of entities such as persons, companies or event streets
and to match messy input, such as their names against that canonical
list – for example, matching Acme Widgets, Acme Widgets Inc and
Acme Widgets Incorporated to the canonical "Acme Widgets".

With Nomenklatura its a matters of minutes to set up your own set of
master data to match against and it provides a simple user interface
and API which you can then use do matching (the API is compatible with
Open Refine's reconciliation function).

Nomenklatura can not only store the master set of entities you want to
match against but also will learn and record the various aliases for a
given entity - such as a person, organisation or place - may have in
various datasets.

Awesome work Friedrich and hat-tips to the many other folks (including
Michael Bauer) who've contributed to this latest iteration.

Regards,

Rufus