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From: Thomas Muhr - Scientific Software Development
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 7:35 PM
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Subject: RE: CAQDAS and secondary analysis of qual.data
>I can see the reasons for this but there are also much more exciting
>opportunities available. My personal favourite would be to provide the
>whole of my project (including data and coding) in NVivo format on
>CD ROM, with the free read-only version of NVivo packaged in.
This is a costly cul-de-sac. Instead of pressing valuable data into a
proprietary representation, restricting presentation and analysis to the
more
or less arbitrary features offered by any one specific software, we should
consider the use of an open standard (XML) which would allow transformation
into any other representation (including NVivo, etc) by way of style sheets.
"Single source, multiple usage" !
- Thomas
I agree, and would'nt it be nice for all the software developers to come up
a basic 'archiving function' as an output. XML would certainly provide an
interoperable standard. Thomas, are you offering to lead the way?!
Louise
Louise Corti
Manager, Qualidata
Department of Sociology
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
UK
+ 44 1206 873058
email: [log in to unmask]
url: <www/essex.ac.uk/qualidata/>
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