We've just uploaded a webcast of the new DataCleaner 1.4 which provides a long awaited update for the old 0.4 webcasts!

Go enjoy the webcast - and be sure to download the newest version of DataCleaner. Over and out!

I'm please to announce the release of DataCleaner 1.4! This is a release that we feel will satisfy a lot of users with improvements and fixes for a lot of issues. Here's a very short compilation of changes, for more details, take a look at the roadmap.

• Replaced "Repeated values" profile with better and more advanced "Value distribution" profile.
• Dictionary matcher drill-to-details options.
• New application logo.
• Lots of small bugfixes and UI beautifications.
• Lots of sample dictionaries and regexes.

We hope you enjoy the new version of DataCleaner - Get it now!.

After some considerations about the future of DataCleaner, we've updated the roadmap to reflect our current plans for the direction of development. We are planning on releasing DataCleaner 1.4 by the end of the month and after that two new milestones have been added:

• DataCleaner 1.5: The main focus of this release is to provide a command line interface for our data quality framework. This means that users will be able to easily create batch jobs that they can schedule using their favorite scheduler. Other features will also include Pattern Finder improvements and a couple of new profiles.
• DataCleaner 1.6: We have a lot of suggestions that have been filling up our backlog. DataCleaner 1.6 will be all about getting everybody's needs into the application before we get ready to begin the webapp. Some of the exciting features of DataCleaner 1.6 will be relationship profiling and exporting of results.

Great news everybody. The Open Source Days '08 conference in Copenhagen will feature a so-called Lightning Speak by Kasper Sørensen on the topic of DataCleaner and the eobjects.org community.

We're really happy to get the message of DataCleaner out to more people and a conference like this is an ideal spot for demonstrations, discussions and experiences. Read more about the lightning speak at Kasper's blog:

• http://kasper.eobjects.dk/2008/09/presenting-datacleaner-at-open-source.html

Update: The presentation is over and you can now also read the retrospective at Kasper's blog:

• http://kasper.eobjects.dk/2008/10/fast-as-lightning.html

During the last year eobjects.dk have grown rapidly and attracted a lot of attention both from Denmark where the community was originally founded, but also internationally from users and contributors in all parts of the world. We believe that this world wide interest in eobjects should be reflected in the website name and address, which is why we have acquired the eobjects.org domain name as of today! Eobjects.dk will still prevail and the domain names are exact aliases but forward on we will undergo a gradual name change from .dk to .org. This will be reflected in several matters;

• The official name of the website will change to eobjects.org.
• For the sake of compatibility we will not change the package names of our java classes just yet. Only major version releases will include such changes (ie. wait for DataCleaner 2.0 and MetaModel 1.1).
• The same principle goes for our Maven artifacts. In time they will probably change though, but this also depends on the repository crew at apache.

We are happy that we now have a domain name that symbolize the international appeal of our software and we hope that it will enforce the community with a likewise global culture and sense of vitality.

We're happy to announce that MetaModel 1.0.7 has just been released! The new release should be a drop-in replacement with minor improvements and bugfixes:

• Improved memory handling and fixed a very slight memory leak (#191).
• Added support for RIGHT JOIN when using the embedded query engine (#175).
• XML support have been improved with more precise column types (#176).

You can download the new MetaModel at our google code download site. For all you maven people out there, here's the update to your POM:

<dependency>
 <groupId>dk.eobjects.commons</groupId>
 <artifactId>MetaModel</artifactId>
 <version>1.0.7</version>
</dependency>

Enjoy.