CIABATTA: Manual deidentification tool
Channel: Corpus & Repository of Writing
Date: 10/02/2021

Crow researchers Hannah Gill and Kevin Sanchez discuss manual deidentification. 

The video walks you through how to use a deidentification tool, which is a downloadable and web-based application for Windows and Mac. This tool has an interface for deidentifying information from texts such as names, titles, and other identifiable information. The interface allows users to replace identifying information with tags such as name, place inside angled brackets. This tool is usually used after the automatic deidentification script has been run. The manual tool is necessary for ensuring names and other identifying information are removed, if this is a concern (e.g., you are planning to share data).

For a more text-based presentation of this content, please see our CIABATTA wiki: https://github.com/writecrow/ciabatta/wiki 

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