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Splink master record

Ministry of Justice · Justice ministry · 2025-10-06

status as stated: productionTransparency recordRecord linkage

The GOV.UK Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard entry lists Ministry of Justice's Splink master record at phase "production". The record says: Splink is an open source Python library for probabilistic record linkage.

"Splink is an open source Python library for probabilistic record linkage. It is designed for linking and deduplicating datasets that lack a unique identifier It is used to link persons between the Ministry of Justice’s courts, prisons and probation datasets in both batch and real-time deployments. For example: - It is used weekly to refresh…"

Status date given by the source: 2025-10-06.

Official record: gov.uk · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
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