This OYSTER reference guide is intended for use by OYSTER users who already have an understanding of the basics of both OYSTER and Entity Resolution as introduced in the "Introduction to Entity Resolution with OYSTER" document bundled with OYSTER. This document is divided into seven sections. The first section is the introduction which you are reading now. The second section is designed to answer configuration questions regarding available options in the OYSTER XML files. The third section provides an explanation and example of Record-based and Attribute based matching. The fourth section provides examples of how to establish connections to different types of source inputs. The fifth section details how to read and understand the various output files that can be generated by an OYSTER run. The sixth section describes other features of OYSTER that fall outside the realm of any other section. The last section provides a list of common errors that can be encountered during the configuration of OYSTER and how to resolve the errors.

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