Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data

Chapter 4

Store and Share – Entity Identity Structures

Abstract

This chapter contains a discussion of the different approaches for storing entity identity information in entity identity structures (EIS) and the most common architectures used in dedicated MDM systems.

Keywords

Entity identity structures; Identity knowledge base; MDM architectures

Entity Identity Information Management Strategies

A characteristic distinguishing entity identity information management (EIIM) from entity resolution (ER) is the persistence of entity identity information, including entity identifiers, from process to process. As noted in Chapter 1 and shown in Figure 1.2, the focus of basic ER or record linking is to properly classify entity references into clusters where ...