Client-facing API to interact with anonlink system including command line tools and Rest API communication. Anonlink system needs the following three components to work together:
This package provides an easy-to-use API to interact with the above packages to complete a record linkage job.
The way to interact with anonlink system is via Command Line Tool anonlink. You can encode data containing PI (Personal
Identifying Information) locally using anonlink encode and generate candidate blocks locally to scale up record linkage
using anonlink block.
Install with pip/poetry etc.:
pip install anonlink-clienthttps://anonlink-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
After installation, you should have a anonlink program in your path. For
example, to encode PII data alice.csv locally with schema schema.json and secret horse, run:
$ anonlink encode 'alice.csv' 'horse' 'schema.json' 'encoded-entities.json'It will generate the CLK output and store in clk.json. To find out how to define the schema
for your PII data, please refer this page for
details.