Official documentation
Recommendations for anonymisation of 'Pioneers of Social Research'
UK Data Service, 2023
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- What it is
- A set of anonymisation recommendations written for a project of 38 interview transcripts, showing how one qualitative collection was prepared for sharing.
- How much weight it carries
- Official material from the UK Data Service, but it describes one project's procedure. Treat its steps as an example of practice, not a general rule.
Facts taken from this source
- For a 2023 UK Data Service anonymisation project of 38 interview transcripts, the recommendations say to edit a copy and keep each original until the whole project is anonymised.
“A copy of the original file is to be made; all changes will be made to the new file and the original file is to be kept until all anonymization of the whole project is complete.” (File management)