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Some cultures and some datasets routinely reverse (or re-order) the order of names; the most common reversal being Surname, FirstName Initial. Such reversals may or may not be indicated by punctuation and may be systematic across an entire dataset or idiosyncratic to groups or individuals within the dataset. To facilitate this the normalization script must support idiosyncratic reversal options using indicator variables.
I declare the following There are two defacto-standard formats (there does not appear to be an [http://www.iso.org ISO] standard): 1. US census [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/standards/scdd/ADCStandard.pdf Address Data Content Standard] 2. Phonebook {| !Source !Element 1 !Element 2 !Element 3 !Element 4 !Element 5 !Element 6
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US Census ADCS census [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/standards/scdd/ADCStandard.pdf Address Data Content Standard] Phonebook (Harcopy) | Name Prefix | First Name | Middle Initial | Surname | Name Suffix
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Phone Book | Last Name | First Name | Middle Initial | |
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