Posted
10 months
ago
by
kasper
Today we are announcing the first company, Lund&Bendsen, to officially support DataCleaner and MetaModel on a commercial level. These eobjects.org projects are, as you know, independent projects that are run with the community in mind. But as
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time goes on they grow and for companies to pick them up and start using them in a commercial setting we also welcome third party commercial support to help spread the projects to environments where community-based support is insufficient.
Lund&Bendsen is a Danish company with a strong expertise in Java development and training. Their service offerings include training, customization, integration and enhancement of DataCleaner and MetaModel so if your company is considering applying DataCleaner they might be interested in hiring some professionals to aid them in the process.
Over time more companies are expected to join in on commercial support for the eobjects.org projects. Keep up to date on the DataCleaner support page and don't hesitate to contact us for any inquiries in this regard either. [Less]
Posted
10 months
ago
by
kasper
The Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) have published an interesting, unbiased and independent analysis of the market for Open Source business intelligence products. We are delighted to see that the article features a section about data quality and
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that TEC points at DataCleaner as a competent choise within the open source products:
In such situations, where the vendor does not support a specific functionality,
organizations can look to complementary open source solutions; the DataCleaner
project from eobjects.org, for instance, provides functionality to help profile
data and monitor data quality. It also points to a significant advantage with
open source applications: the fact that software is developed by the community
and for the community makes it much simpler to share innovative solutions
quickly and seamlessly.
You can read the whole article by Anna Mallikarjunan from TEC by going to their website (user registration is required). [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
kasper
Another batch of updates, fixes and improvements for the upcoming DataCleaner release is ready. This time it's Release Candidate 2 offering a preview of what's to come in DataCleaner 1.5.
DataCleaner download site:
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http://datacleaner.eobjects.org/downloads
The main changes since Release Candidate 1 are multithreaded execution, the command line interface (runjob.sh / runjob.cmd), some UI updates and a few bugfixes. Go download the release candidate and use it as an opportunity to influence the development process by posting your comments on the DataCleaner forum. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
kasper
After working hard for a couple of days to implement substantial new features regarding integration of eobjects services and automatic download and install of popular database drivers, a new release candidate of DataCleaner is
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ready!
DataCleaner download site: http://datacleaner.eobjects.org/downloads
We hope that a lot of people will use the release candidate and provide feedback for further development towards the 1.5 final release. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
kasper
I've spent the last couple of days implementing a couple of cool enhancements to the DataCleaner desktop-application:
Automatic download and install of popular database drivers. Followed along with template connection strings in the "Open
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database" dialog. This will hopefully make it much easier for less experienced users to set up a connection to their database of choice.
Direct integration with the new RegexSwap system so that the regexes that you post online will be accessible from within the desktop-application.
Screenshots have been posted to the media page.
Wait for DataCleaner 1.5 for these features or build it yourself to check them out now. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
kasper
A new release of MetaModel is ready for download. The new version, 1.1.4, is a bug-fix release with a critical issue for PostgreSQL databases fixed. Other than that no changes from 1.1.3, so it should be a drop-in replacement
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update.
Enjoy.
You can download an archived version
Or get it using maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>dk.eobjects.metamodel</groupId>
<artifactId>MetaModel-full</artifactId>
<version>1.1.4/version>
</dependency> [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
kasper
Only a few days after the launch of the new DataCleaner website, we are once again ready with new exciting features. This time we are launching the first edition of our new regular expression (regex) sharing subsite called
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"RegexSwap".
RegexSwap is a specialized forum for sharing, categorizing, commenting and voting on regular expressions that can be used in DataCleaner and other regex-based applications. It is really easy to post your own regular expressions, test them online on the website, comment and vote on the regexes that you have found useful. In time the next releases of DataCleaner will also take advantage of this online "always up to date" regex resource and offer direct integration with RegexSwap.
RegexSwap is still in beta but is ready at a functional level which is why we are launching publically it now. It will recieve dedicated attention in the weeks and months to come. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
kasper
Dear everybody,
As a special christmas present we have been working hard to design a new website for DataCleaner! Hopefully you will all enjoy the new site, which have been designed to further support our community and let it grow by
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incorporating more features to socialize and share ideas online. So go visit it now at the new URL:
http://datacleaner.eobjects.org
Among the new features are a more personal profile system which is linked to some of the communities that our users already use frequently, namely LinkedIn and SourceForge. We have a whole new media section with cool screenshots and webcasts. We are also redesigning our mailing list structure. Instead of the single mailing list that we have been using so far, we are launching new "announcement" and "dev" mailing lists.
Our goal is to continuously launch new features on the website. The first one being a user survey to gain a better insight into the minds of our users and community. So be sure to fill it out. In the future we will add more exiting features such as online sharing of regular expressions and reference data for DataCleaner dictionaries.
The old website will continue to exist, but primarily as a wiki and bugtracking system. During the next couple of days we will be editing the wiki pages to make them more suitable for wiki-style editing (by everyone) as opposed to the former readonly strategy.
We hope you like our christmas present and that you will let us know. and we wish you all a great 2009. Without a doubt, it will bring exiting times for DataCleaner and the DataCleaner community. [Less]
Posted
12 months
ago
by
kasper
As we where recently made aware of, we have once again messed up our maven deployments of MetaModel, sorry! If you're using maven for your Java projects and you just updated your <dependency> tag in your POM files, replacing the version entry
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"1.1.2" with "1.1.3", I'm sure you ran into a lot of ClassNotFoundException's, because the maven artifacts where in fact empty! We are very sorry about this poor release management situation, but here are a couple of ways that we (you) can fix this:
You can add the eobjects maven repository to your POM. The eobjects maven repository contains valid maven artifacts so that's quite an easy fix:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>eobjects-maven</id>
<name>Eobjects repository for Maven</name>
<url>http://datacleaner.sourceforge.net/m2-repo/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
You can wait a few hours and the central maven repo will have been updated with a couple of new artifacts with the "1.1.3-FINAL" version literal. So your new dependency will look like this:
<dependency>
<groupId>dk.eobjects.metamodel</groupId>
<artifactId>MetaModel-full</artifactId>
<version>1.1.3-FINAL</version>
</dependency> [Less]
Posted
12 months
ago
by
kasper
We've just released MetaModel version 1.1.3. This is a stabilization release containing some microscopical bugfixes, specifically in regards of Schema serialization. If you're currently using any 1.1.x release of MetaModel, then you should do a
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drop-in replacement and expect no changes to your code.
As always MetaModel is available from our downloads page and through the maven repositories.
Unless anything urgent comes up this will be the last release of the 1.1 branch of MetaModel. The next focus of MetaModel 1.2 will be to include support for more datastore formats, including dBase and improved XML tag-to-table modelling.
And of course if you have any ideas for development, don't hesitate to let us know! [Less]
