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Website updated 28th June 2010

28 May 2010 11:57:09 GMT

Today, 28th June 2010, the links at the site at http://www.grcdi.nl has been updated. This includes a new web page for data quality resources, blogs and tweets, with 70 links added up to now at http://www.grcdi.nl/linksdq.htm . Other changes are listed below.

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Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- United Kingdom - (in English) (Beacon Dodsworth) - United Kingdom postcode atlas.
- United Kingdom - (in English) (Beacon Dodsworth) - United Kingdom PostView postal code boundary data.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Armenia (in English and Armenian).
- Serbia (in Serbian, Latin script).

Links to company pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksoth.htm

Links added
- Data-8 (in English, based in Ellesmere Port, U.K.) - Postcode Lookup Web Service API.
- Talend - Open source data integration, data quality, master data management
- Universal Postal Union - Post*Code (in German, based in Bern, Switzerland) - postal files for over 190 U.P.U. member countries in a single format with quarterly updates.
- Universal Postal Union - Post*Code (in Spanish, based in Bern, Switzerland) - postal files for over 190 U.P.U. member countries in a single format with quarterly updates.

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Universal Postal Union - Post*Code (in English, based in Bern, Switzerland) - postal files for over 190 U.P.U. member countries in a single format with quarterly updates.
Universal Postal Union - Post*Code (in French, based in Bern, Switzerland) - postal files for over 190 U.P.U. member countries in a single format with quarterly updates.

Links broken
- Pro Domus (in English) - software to put address data into the correct output format - only 30 countries supported.

Links to maps and mapping pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksothm.htm

Links added
- Beacon Dodsworth (in English) - United Kingdom mapping and data specialists.

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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New reference data table releases, quarter 3, 2010

7 May 2010 13:19:31 GMT

We have released a number of updates of our reference tables this month:

Given names: we have increased the number of records in this file to over 163000, and improved gender coding - the gender summary table now contains over 38000 records.

Place name/postal codes: the new release of this file contains over 30 million place names/postal code combination records, collected by analysing over 90 million real world data records.

Address elements: the new release contains over 443000 address element strings for world addresses.

Job titles: the new release contains almost 95000 common job titles.

Please contact us if you have any questions about these files.

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Global Sourcebook for Name and Address Data Management - new version (10v1) released!

5 May 2010 13:22:17 GMT

A new version of the Global Sourcebook for Name and Address Data Management has been released today.

Details about the book and this new version are available at http://www.grcdi.nl/book2.htm and http://www.grcdi.nl/book10_1.htm . We are working to make the Global Sourcebook, more than ever, the only resource you'll need for your international data management information.

You can order your update online at http://www.grcdi.nl/shop/ - and please let me know of anything you'd like to see included in future editions.

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20 Aug 2007 11:28:24 GMT

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Free web form e-book

24 Apr 2009 09:43:33 GMT

I released today my new book: “Better data quality from your web form - Effective international name and address Internet data collection�. The good news is that it is completely free to download and use, so go to http://www.grcdi.nl/book4.htm to download it. Spread the word!

Web forms are a source of immense and continuous frustration for many people as the forms almost universally fail to take any account of variations in personal name and addressing conventions used throughout the world, so that customers have to struggle to clear the hurdles placed in their way by the forms. Reports suggest that almost 9 out of 10 customers have problems when attempting to carry out online transactions, and the result is a huge loss of income from lost custom paired with the collection of very poor quality data.

This e-book (in Acrobat pdf format), which is free to download and use, attempts to fill the gap left by most works about usability by concentrating on the experience that your international customers have with your form, and how it affects them, their relationship with you and your data quality.

This has been done using many examples and without going into too much depth about the idiosyncrasies of international personal names and addresses, and avoids technical discussions � links to get more information are provided where appropriate in the text.

Any feedback is most welcome.