Ian,
You are quite right. I've met researchers who use a number of different
"transcription" techniques. One common approach is to introduce field
notes as the transcript and link the rough times jotted down in those
notes to the appropriate times in the video. I've also seen examples of
folks studying "enacted practice" of curriculum load a lesson plan and
link activities observed to that rough outline.
One recent example I saw at the American Education Research Association
annual meeting used a mix of minute codes just as you suggest and a
series of punctuation marks ([{-_,etc.) and numbers that represented a
gestural "transcript" for a team interested in evidence of children's
pre-verbal thinking. I always encourage researchers to think of creating
the transcript as a vital analytical act. One should be very clear about
what needs to be in there and what does not need to be there.
Chris
I Jones wrote:
>This message carries on from the "Qualrus and screen capture video files"
>thread (March 2005).
>
>Chris Thorn wrote - "Speaking for the Transana team, this is a tough issue.
>We certainly encourage users to transcribe only those segments of the video
>that are analytically relevant."
>
>That actually suits my purposes quite well. I typically analyse a few hours
>screen capture using qualrus (saving time, expense & error on transcription)
>and then end up identifying a 15 to 20 video excerpt that is of particular
>interest. I tried using transana to finely analyse a short excerpt for
>closer analysis and found it a very productive activity - not just for my
>own thinking but for presenting ideas to colleagues. I will certainly
>continue to get to know transana.
>
>It occurs to me there may be a productive way to analyse video in transana
>without transcribing. This is speculative but in essence I'm wondering
>something like this:
>
>Rather than transcribe one could simply copy a list of numbers into the
>transcript window as follows -
>
>zero
>one
>two
>three...
>
>... and so on. Each number corresponds to a minute of video (or whatever
>appropriate scale). Time codes can then be inserted and clips, collections
>and keywords assigned - it seems to me there's no need whatsoever for the
>transcript window to actually contain a transcription in order to do this.
>
>That said I am inexperienced with transana and have not tried what I am
>suggesting. Does it make sense or am I talking nonsense?
>
>Ian
>
>
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Chris Thorn
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
http://facstaff.wcer.wisc.edu/cathorn
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