Project: Isotopic-Data-Standardisation-Tool
Source: open_heritage_software_project_scopes.md — Project 14
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CONTEXT:
I am building an open-source isotopic and paleoecological data standardisation tool to help researchers prepare legacy datasets for submission to repositories like Neotoma and IsoArcH. I need research:

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RESEARCH PROMPT 5:

**Column name matching algorithms**: What ML or NLP approaches work best for automatically matching column names in messy research spreadsheets to standardised schema fields? Are there existing open-source tools for schema mapping in data integration that could be repurposed?
