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T	AnSWR A software system for coordinating and conducting large-scale, team-based analysis projects that integrate qualitative and quantitative techniques.
T	AQUAD Text interpretation by one-step coding with the data text and a master code list on the screen. Text interpretation by two-step coding with a print-out of your text with a master code list and highlighted text segments on the screen. Coding by clicking (into an automatically maintained master code list). Variable lenght of codes, maximum 22 characters. Word analysis: Counting of single words, analysis with word lists ("dictionnaries"), differentiation of speakers "Speaker codes" allow to analyse parts of texts produced by different speakers (or answers to different questions). Practically unlimited memos; copy text segments into your memos, retrieve them by text number, line numbers, code, particular key-word or parts of the memo text (full text search). One, two or three level table analysis. Linkage construction and analysis by clicking and drag-and-drop -- no additional compiler and programming necessary. Comparison of cases/texts by Boolean analysis of critical features ("logical minimization").
T?	Atlas/ti The applicational areas for ATLAS.ti are characterized by a systematic, yet creative approach to analyzing unstructured, mainly textual data.
A/V	Best Behavior Evaluation Strategies and Taxonomies software. BEST is a user-friendly software package that facilitates real-time collection and analysis of observational category system data. Core Product Description: Two separate but compatible programs, data collection and data analysis, are made available to collect and analyze observational category system data. Two Platforms: Windows-based and DOS-based (refer to relevant Core Program Offering). The collection program enables the recording of start and stop times of multiple mutually exclusive or overlapping events in real time. Recording can be implemented in the live setting or in synchrony with videotape records. Multiple different observation systems may be used with the same data collection apparatus by predefining keys on the keyboard and then saving a particular observation system file. Each predefined observational configuration for a particular application is represented on screen for data collection ease. A configuration file manager for multiple categorical observation systems, and a file manager for multiple data files for each observation system is also contained in the program. The analysis program enables the viewing and manipulation of individual data files, and data file collections, in tabular, graphic, and hierarchical formats. Analyses range from descriptive statistics, to narrative analyses, to sequential analyses, to a variety of graphic representations. Data file editing, clipboarding to other statistical and graphic editing programs, printing, and other data file manipulation functions are also included.
T	CDC EZ - TEXT "CDC EZ-Text" is a software program developed to assist researchers create, manage, and analyze semi-structured qualitative databases. Researchers can design a series of data entry templates tailored to their questionnaire. These questionnaires are usually administered during face-to-face interviews with a sample of respondents. A response to a question may be entered into EZ-Text either as a verbatim transcript (e.g., from a tape recording), or a summary generated from the interviewer's notes. Data from respondents can be typed directly into the templates or copied from word processor documents. Following data entry, investigators can interactively create on-line codebooks, apply codes to specific response passages, develop case studies, conduct database searches to identify text passages that meet user-specified conditions, and export data in a wide array of formats for further analysis with other qualitative or statistical analysis software programs. Project managers can merge data files generated by different interviewers for combined cross-site analyses. The ability to export and import the codebook helps to coordinate the efforts of multiple coders simultaneously working with copies of the same database file.
T	Code-A-Text The Code-A-Text Integrated System for the Analysis of Interviews and Dialogues. A very powerful system for studying multimedia documents which integrates qualitative and quantitative methods.
T	CodeRead - an autocoding mechanism for text-based data Most of CodeRead is encapsulated in the four Perl modules that define the data structures and methods. You can get information at that level by using perldoc CodeRead in the appropriate directory. The perldoc simply documents the perl objects and their properties and methods. Perl programmers may find this useful, most others will clearly not. There is, in addition, a frontend script that remains VERY basic. This script makes it possible for non-programmers to get somewhere (although it's not clear where) using CodeRead. The script is called cr.pl and should usually be run from the command line while in the directory where CodeRead is installed. You can type cr.pl -h to get a list of options for using the script. It allows basic, but not very fine-grained, use of the tools.
A/V	CVideo CVideo is a video annotation tool that lets you analyze, annotate and easily locate specific scenes on your videotapes and laserdiscs. CVideo integrates a special word processor with a video controller. The video controller provides direct control of your video player with single keystrokes and mouse clicks. The word processor lets you take notes and stamp start and end times that link each note to a video scene. Once your video is annotated, CVideo can fast forward or rewind automatically to a specific video scene or text note. CVideo's word processor format supports a great variety of representations including content logs, transcripts, and keyword coding schemes. Moreover, users can mix and match a variety of annotation strategies within a single document: keywords, transcript, and analytic comments can be intermingled freely. The Find command enables users to search their text for a keyword or phrase, and the Collect All command gathers the resulting set of annotations into a list. CVideo links your Mac to a video player via a simple cable. It runs on any Apple(R) Macintosh(R) computer, with no need for special video cards or a lot of computer memory. CVideo can be used with any television monitor and works with popular makes of VCRs and camcorders, including Sony LANC and Visca devices. Finally, CVideo now gives you nearly unlimited flexibility in how you record and view you video notes. Using the custom AppleEvents supported within CVideo 1.5, you can annotate video within any Macintosh application, including FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Word, or your electronic mail editor. For example, if you need a database format with multiple fields including QuickTime movies, numbers, buttons, and checkbox, you can type your video notes in FileMaker Pro 2.0. Via AppleEvents, all CVideo's features become available for your use: Press a key to start or stop the video. Click a button to stamp a video time into a FileMaker Pro field. Click another button and CVideo will locate the corresponding video scene for you. All without leaving FileMaker Pro! CVideo is simple to learn since only a few controls and commands are needed to quickly timestamp, annotate and locate your recorded video material.
T	Diction Diction 5.0 is a text analysis program with the ability to search text to determine the tone of a verbal passage
T	ESA Event structure analysis. ESA is an on-line Java program that helps you analyze sequential events. Prerequisite analysis produces a diagram showing how some events are necessary for other events, and how abstract events are represented in concrete happenings. You can test whether the diagram works as a grammar explaining the sequence of events. Composition analysis involves coding agent, action, object, instrument, setting, alignment, product, and beneficiary of each event. This lets you determine how people, things, and actions were linked by the events. ESA updates Ethno, which dealt only with prerequisite analysis.
A/V	EthoVision EthoVision is a fully integrated system for automatic recording of activity, movement and interactions of animals. Combining the latest computer and video technology with powerful image processing and pattern recognition software, EthoVision offers a wide range of video tracking options, powerful analysis of locomotory tracks and automatic behavior recognition. Besides automating the data acquisition process, the Windows-based software provides easy-to-use tools for designing experiments, management of trial information in databases, as well as visualization and analysis of the collected data. Its versatility makes EthoVision the ideal tool for today’s behavioral researcher, saving valuable time and greatly improving the quality of experimental data. Backed up by on-site installation and training, prompt technical support and continuous product development, EthoVision is a solid investment in the future of your research!
T	The Ethnograph The Ethnograph v5.0 for Windows PCs is a versatile computer program designed to make the analysis of data collected during qualitative research easier, more efficient, and more effective. You can import your text-based qualitative data, typed in any word processor, straight into the program. The Ethnograph helps you search and note segments of interest within your data, mark them with code words and run analyses which can be retrieved for inclusion in reports or further analysis. First launched in 1985, The Ethnograph was one of the first programs to pioneer computer assisted qualitative data analysis. Since then The Ethnograph has continued to be developed by qualitative data analysts for qualitative data analysts such as social scientists, historians, literary critics, health researchers, business and market analysts, legal researchers and others. The Ethnograph will handle your project data files and documents whether your data comes in form of interview transcript, field notes, open-ended survey responses, or other text based documents.
A/V	The executive producer The Executive Producer® for Windows (WinTEP) is the professional's choice for video logging software. Save editing costs on your next project by starting with a complete, informative log. Whether you log in the field or office, create comprehensive and easy to use logs, print storyboards and output batch digitizing lists for any non-linear editor.
A/V	HyperRESEARCH HyperRESEARCH 2.0 allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video source material. Displayed reports include hyperlinks to underlying source material. you get a window that shows the video and typical control buttons manipulating playing speed, stop, pause, etc. You can select and deselect any number of frames. There is also open at the same time a window that holds your coding process.You code in one window against what you see (or hear for aural files).
T	Hyperqual HyperQual3 is a valuable tool for storing, managing, organizing, and analyzing qualitative (text) data. Effectively handles structured and unstructured interviews, observations, documents, and research memos. HyperQual3 is the 10th anniversary edition of HyperQual, the original qualitative data analysis program for the Macintosh..
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T	KEDS The Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) is a Macintosh program for the machine coding of international event data using pattern recognition and simple grammatical parsing. It is designed to work with short news articles such as those found in wire service reports or chronologies. To date, KEDS has primarily been used to code WEIS events from Reuters wire service lead sentences but in principle it can be used for other event coding schemes.
A/V	Kwalitan In het laatste decennium is de belangstelling voor de analyse van kwalitatief materiaal sterk gegroeid. Een toenemend aantal onderzoekers uit een toenemend aantal disciplines wil een analyse uitvoeren op de antwoorden van open, ongestructureerde interviews, op de teksten van documenten en rapporten, op krantenartikelen, dagboeken en logboeken, enzovoorts. Maar de kwalitatieve, interpretatieve analyse is niet alleen beperkt tot de situaties waarin men beschikt over schriftelijk materiaal: ze kan ook betrekking hebben op objecten als schilderijen, afbeeldingen, geluidsfragmenten en videofragmenten. Kwalitan is een programma dat de onderzoeker ondersteuning biedt bij dit soort analyses. Kwalitan zorgt voor een efficiënte opslag van de gegevens en biedt diverse hulpmiddelen om het kwalitatieve materiaal te analyseren, zoals coderen, selecteren en terugzoeken van gegevens, het ordenen van codes, overzichten van codes of van woorden in de tekst, 'key words in context' en het schrijven van memo's. Met Kwalitan kunt u teksten, afbeeldingen, geluidsfragmenten en videofragmenten analyseren.
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T	MacSHAPA Software for observational data analysis. MacSHAPA is one of a number of software tools now emerging to help with the problems of ESDA (for other examples see Sanderson, 1994). MacSHAPA does not help with every kind of ESDA--no software tool can--but it does help with certain kinds. MacSHAPA lets you do the following: Enter or import data into a spreadsheet-like viewing medium; Annotate, manipulate, and visualize data in various ways; Carry out statistical analyses of various kinds; Export data and results to other applications.
T	MARTIN Martin is a Microsoft Windows application written for qualitative textual research. A tool to facilitate analyses, not to generate them, it was developed by conducting hermeneutical analyses of the lived experiences of interpretive researchers and was designed to reflect the ways a researcher thinks about and interacts with written texts. Utilizing object-oriented programming and Windows' graphics interface, MARTIN offers researchers an alternative to fixed labeling schemes by using the computer screen as the electronic equivalent of a desktop. Documents and interview texts are displayed in windows that can be moved, stacked, tiled, resized, or reduced to icons. Each text occupies its own window, and multiple texts can be displayed simultaneously, making it easy to work across texts. Notes can be attached freely and discarded at any time.
T	NUDIST N4 When QSR released N5, its predecessor, NUDIST4, was maintained for those of the thousands of users who might not wish to upgrade, and for future research students wishing for a low-priced entry to qualitative computing. Nicknamed N4 soon after its release in 1997, the software now takes a "Classic" position. N4 Classic offers an easy and inexpensive route to developing the core qualitative computing skills of flexible coding, retrieval and searching. It comes with new introductory printed "Mini-manual" and has the original full documentation online. Published how-to books extend the provided documentation.
T	NUDIST N5 New from QSR, N5 is the latest version of the NUDIST software, the world’s leading software for code-based qualitative analysis. It combines efficient management of Non-numerical Unstructured Data with powerful processes of Indexing Searching and Theorizing.
T	NVivo With QSR NUD*IST Vivo, qualitative data will no longer be bound by black and white textual boundaries. NVivo is a very richly featured and highly advanced program for handling qualitative data analysis research projects. It combines rich, editable text and multimedia capabilities to help you bring your data alive. With NVivo’s new integrated search tools, you can understand and analyze the subtleties of your data. Your qualitative data now becomes rich, shaped, colored, and offers a wealth of context. Viewed as revolutionary in its debuts in Asia, Europe, and North America, NVivo breaks with the dominant paradigm of qualitative computing. For the first time researchers can handle rich data as rich text – with the full ability to edit, visually code, and link documents as they are created, coded, filtered, managed and searched. Data analysis need no longer rely on coding. Researchers can now choose from a wide range of ways of exploring data appropriate to your method and goals. In NVivo, you can create, edit, code and explore compound documents, which have embedded hyperlinks to multi-media files and complex webs of links between data and ideas about it. These new ways of handling information permit a more rigorous and detailed exploration of data. Information can be stored in an entirely new attribute system, integrated with all new search and filtering procedures. New methods of exploring data include keeping and modeling ideas, searching and building on searches, support more fluid and confident analysis than previously available.
A/V	The observer The Observer is the ultimate system for the collection, analysis, presentation and management of observational data. You can use it to record activities, postures, movements, positions, facial expressions, social interactions or any other aspect of human or animal behavior. Designed for data entry by a human observer, The Observer is the logical successor of paper and pencil. You can enter data directly into a PC or handheld computer, or code events from video tape or digital media file. No more time-consuming and error-prone data transcription - analysis reports are available instantly. These supply you with objective and quantitative data for direct conclusions or further research.
T	PLCA PLCA, Program for Linguistic Content Analysis, is an aid to the scientist who wishes to perform statistical analyses that utilize texts as data. The program provides a means for mapping texts into a data matrix that contains information on words and their interrelations. PLCA, Program for Linguistic Content Analysis, assists in content analysis. PLCA provides a means for mapping texts into a data matrix that contains information on words and their interrelations, which can be statistically analyzed. This matrix can be reconverted into a representation of the original text. The similarity that the reproduced text bears to the original depends to a large degree upon the used vocabulary which can be added, deleted, modified, and renumbered by the user.
T	QED Qualitative Enhanced Data analysis. Starting 1/1/2001 TriMM has decided to stop the QED (Qualitative Enhanced Data-analysis) project.
A/V	QMA Qualitative Media Analysis, former KIT. Qualitative analysis of interviews, observations stored as digital video or digitial audio. Information is currently being updated
A/V	SignStream SignStream is a database tool for analysis of linguistic data captured on video. Although SignStream is being designed specifically for working with data from American Sign Language, the tool may be applied to any kind of language data captured on video. A SignStream database consists of a number of utterances, where each utterance associates a segment of video with a detailed transcription of that video. One goal of the SignStream project is to develop a large database of coded American Sign Language utterances.
T	Tabari Successor of KEDS. The Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) is a Macintosh program for the machine coding of international event data using pattern recognition and simple grammatical parsing. It is designed to work with short news articles such as those found in wire service reports or chronologies. To date, KEDS has primarily been used to code WEIS events from Reuters wire service lead sentences but in principle it can be used for other event coding schemes.
T	Tatoe Text Analysis Tool with Object Encoding. The Text Analysis Tool with Object Encoding for computer-assisted text analysis offers functionality for text as well as coding exploration and on-line coding of text data. It supports a large variety of tasks related to computer-assisted and multi-layered text analysis.
T	TextAnalyst TextAnalyst helps analyze and manage unstructured documents. It can navigate, summarize, cluster texts, and support natural language searching.
T	Textbase Alpha TextBase Alfa er et computerprogram, der kan være til stor hjælp i forbindelse med tekstanalyse; f.eks. analyse af interviews.
T	Textbase Beta Textbase Beta is a computer program which may be of great help in connection with the analysing of texts, f.inst. analysing interviews. The program can be used on all IBM-compatible computers using DOS. It is very easy to use the program because it has been built so that it will function as the electronic version of the "oldfashioned" "mark, cut and paste" technique.
A/V	VideoSearch A Macintosh multimedia research tool for digitising and analysing video. VideoSearch is a state-of-the-art technology which has been developed by Dr Ken Knibb at Edith Cowan University. It is designed to rapidly analyse and categorise events from a video and is invaluable for researchers using the video medium for data collection. An example: Herrington, J. and Knibb, K. (1999). Multimedia and student activity: An interpretive study using VideoSearch. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 15(1), 47-57.
T	WINMAX Application areas are all kinds of text and qualitative data like narrative interviews, focus groups, all kinds of unstructured interviews, case histories, field notes, observation protocols, documents, letters and other written material.
T	WORDSTAT Content Analysis Module for Simstat.