Anonymising Made Easy

Well, not quite.
Anonymising is never easy, but the Irish Qualitative Data Archive has created an anonymisation tool which can be downloaded and used to speed up the process of changing names in the transcript. It works both on mac and on pc's.
 
The tool can be found here.

We have produced a guide to using the tool. If you want to test the tool, to see it how it works, here is a sample text file and here is a sample Changes File which has the name's that are to be changed.
Before you use the tool, you should also look at the IQDA anonymisation protocols which can be found here.

The tool is in beta (testing phase), if you have any difficulty using it, we would greatly appreciate it if you could contact us.
 
Aileen O'Carroll
(photograph is from the Nirsa Photoarchive)