Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data

Dr. John R. Talburt is Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) where he is the Coordinator for the Information Quality Graduate Program and the Executive Director of the UALR Center for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ). He is also the Chief Scientist for Black Oak Partners, LLC, an information quality solutions company. Prior to his appointment at UALR he was the leader for research and development and product innovation at Acxiom Corporation, a global leader in information management and customer data integration. Professor Talburt holds several patents related to customer data integration and the author of numerous articles on information quality and entity resolution, and is the author of Entity Resolution and Information Quality (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011). He also holds the IAIDQ Information Quality Certified Professional (IQCP) credential. Dr. Yinle Zhou is an IBM software architect and data scientist in the InfoSphere MDM development group in Austin, Texas, and also serves as an Affiliate Member of the Graduate Faculty at University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). Dr. Zhou holds a PhD in Integrated Computing with Emphasis in Information Quality (IQ) from UALR where her doctoral research focused on modeling the management of entity identity information in entity resolution systems. She also holds a Master of Science in Information Quality from UALR, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Electronic Commerce from Nanjing University in China, and the Information Quality Certified Professional (IQCP) credential issued by the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ). Her research and publications are in areas of information quality, identity management, entity and identity resolution, and social computing

1. The Value Proposition for MDM and Big Data?2. What is entity information lifecycle management?3. Metrics for Quantifying Entity Integrity4. Identity Capture Deep Dive5. Identity Archiving and Disposal6. Identity Resolution7. Identity Update8. CSRUD for Big Data9. Toward Big Data Analytics10. Final Thoughts