How about Weft QDA (http://www.pressure.to/qda/) and RQDA (http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/)? Best HUANG Ronggui, Wincent Tel: (00852) 3442 3832 PhD Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong Home page: http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html ----- 原始邮件 ----- 发件人: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[log in to unmask]> 日期: 2009年 5月 16日, 星期六, 下午7:45 主题: Re: You are now subscribed to the QUAL-SOFTWARE list 收件人: [log in to unmask] > 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/