There are numerous challenges associated with the mass import of data, including the fact that source data can be untidy and error-prone, and a one-to-one match is often unreliable.
At the recent EIDR Annual Participant Meeting in Los Angeles, OpusData CEO Bruce Nash shared how it built a system to track the origin and timing of the data it provides to clients, in the presentation “Verified and Accountable: Using EIDR for Compliance-Driven Data Integrity.”
The OpusData offering helps ensure compliance and transparency in high-stakes environments, and for large-scale metadata imports, they turn to EIDR as a trusted, third-party source for verification. By using EIDR for mass data import, it can check against multiple sources at the same time, and if all agree, the results can be certified. If only two of the three agree, a manual check is in order to see what needs updating.
This use of EIDR data minimizes the need for manual data entries, can improve the data coming from both OpusData and EIDR, and generally ensures accuracy.
To listen to Nash’s presentation, click here. To view the presentation slide deck, click here.