Data Matching

Peter Christen is Senior Lecturer at the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research interests are data mining, with a focus on data matching, and privacy-preserving data sharing and mining. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, and he is the principle developer of the `Febrl' (Freely Extensible Biomedical Record Linkage) open source data cleaning, deduplication and record linkage system.

• Part I Overview.- Introduction.- The Data Matching Process.- Part II Steps of the Data Matching Process.- Data Pre-Processing.- Indexing.- Field and Record Comparison.- Classification.- Evaluation of Matching Quality and Complexity.- Part III Further Topics.- Privacy Aspects of Data Matching.- Further Topics and Research Directions.- Data Matching Systems.

"The book is very well organized and exceptionally well written. Because of the depth, amount, and quality of the material that is covered, I would expect this book to be one of the standard references in future years." William E. Winkler, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, USA