UALR Department of Information Science

Professor of Information Science
Acxiom Chair of Information Quality
Advisor for the Master of Science in Information Quality program
Director, UALR Laboratory for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ)
Associate Director, Acxiom Laboratory for Applied Research (ALAR)

Degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics , 1971
  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
  Dissertation Title: "Computational Methods for Problems in Finite Solvable Group Theory" 
• Master of Science (MS), Mathematics , 1969
  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics , 1967
  Arkansas State University

Courses

• INFQ 7303, Introduction to Information Quality
• IFSC 2300, Object-Oriented Technology

Professional Memberships

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers -Computer Society (IEEE-CS)
• International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ)
• Information Resources Management Association (IRMA)

Research Interests

• Information Quality
• Data Integration
• Entity Resolution
• Semantic Interoperability
• Knowledge Representation

Patents and Inventions

"Data Linking System and Method Using Encoded Links," US Patent Application Serial 10/217,059, August 12, 2002, European Patent Office Application Number 03254567.5, July 21, 2003

"Data Linking System and Method Using Tokens," US Patent 6,523,041, February 18, 2003.

"Method and System for the Creation, Enhancement, and Update of Remote Data Using Persistent Keys," US Patent 6,073,140, June 6, 2000.

Recent Publications

Talburt, John , Ningning Wu, Joe Swaty, Jerry Adams, "Master of Science in Information Quality: Creating a new Program with Industry and Research Community Support," The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21, Number 5, May 2006, pp. 177-179.

Talburt, John , Richard Wang, Kimberly Hess, and Emily Kuo, "An Algebraic Approach to Data Quality Metrics for Entity Resolution over Large Datasets," Book Chapter, Information Quality Management: Theory and Applications, Idea Group Publishing (for publication in 2006)

Hess, Kimberly and John Talburt ,"Applying Name Knowledge to Information Quality Assessments," Book Chapter, Challenges of Managing Information Quality in Service Organizations, Idea Group Publishing (for publication in 2006)

Talburt, John and Traci Campbell, "Designing a Balanced Data Quality Scorecard," Proceedings: 2006 Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA 2006), Washington, DC, May 21-24, 2006, pp. 506-508.

Talburt, John , Charles Morgan, Terry Talley, and Ken Archer, "Using Commercial Data Integration Technologies to Improve the Quality of
Anonymous Entity Resolution in the Public Sector," Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-2005), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 2005, pp. 133-144.

Talburt, John , Emily Kuo, Richard Wang, and Kimberly Hess, "An Algebraic Approach to Data Quality Metrics for Customer Recognition," Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Information Quality ICIQ-2004), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 5-7, 2004, pp 234-247.

Hess, Kimberly and John Talburt, "Applying Name Knowledge to Name Quality Assessment," Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-2004), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 5-7, 2004, pp 211-217.

Ford, Charles W, Chia-Chu Chiang, Hao Wu, Radhika Chilka, and John Talburt, "Confidence on Approximate Query In Large Datasets," Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology. Coding and Computing (IEEE ITCC '04), 2004, pp. 480-484.