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Hi, I'm interested in Free/Open Source applications for qualitative data analysis. I noticed a very nice review of Transana in Choosing a CAQDAS Package A working paper by Ann Lewins & Christina Silver 5th edition July 2006 (although this pdf seems to be no longer available). It left out the TAMS Analyzer though ( http://tamsys.sourceforge.net/ ). I know that new versions of Transana now require payment, but being once open source it'll always be open source (per the GPL), paying for open source is not a bad thing in my mind, as long as the user has the option of seeing what happens to their data. But, Transana is not _exactly_ what I'm looking for, I'm more looking at the aspects of coding meaning units in transcripts, and search and management among these. TAMS is unfortunately only for OS X, no Windows version. Does anyone have suggestions for other similar applications that do these things? Also, has anyone considered Semantic Mediawiki (or perhaps SMW+ http://www.ontoprise.de/index.php?id=241 ) for QACDAS? The coding and analysis use-cases seem very similar to semantic markup and search. best regards, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer http://apertium.org/