QualiAnon

Qualiservice tool for anonymizing text data

https://www.qualiservice.org

If you have any questions regarding the use of QualiAnon for your research project, please send us an email to: qualianon@uni-bremen.de

Documentation

• User manual: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fLLYvsgXjh_p9p_E1fhikkIPQb19VUiltbRgaWQoD-M/edit?usp=sharing

Installation + Requirements

Wiki - Installation instructions

System Requirements

Wiki - System Requirements

Download

Download the lastest release from the "Release" section at https://github.com/pangaea-data-publisher/qualianon/releases

Citation

Use the following citation to reference QualiAnon in your works:

Tom Nicolai, Kati Mozygemba, Susanne Kretzer, Betina Hollstein, Egor Gordeev (2025): QualiAnon - Qualiservice tool for anonymizing text data (version 1.5.0). Qualiservice. University of Bremen. Software available at: https://github.com/pangaea-data-publisher/qualianon

Acknowledgement

The technical implementation of the first version of QualiAnon was carried out by Qualiservice in cooperation with Prof. Dr Jürgen Pfeffer, Dr Mirco Schönfeld and Wienke Strathern (Chair of Computational Social Science at the Technical University of Munich and the Munich School of Public Policy, PANGAEA). Based on this version, QualiAnon was further developed technically by Dr Tom Nicolai (PANGAEA).

Run

mvn clean javafx:run

Test

mvn clean test

Build jar for distribution

mvn clean package

Builds a fat jar in the "target" folder, javafx is bundled for windows, mac and linux.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer of Warranty.

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