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Hi All programs advertised as qualitative data analysis software are planned for data managemant, too. Since you have audio recordings (not video recordings) you shoul, however, check that the program in question can handle audio (video?) data. I have used QSR NVivo 8 that works well, but there are many other "general" programs too like ATLAS.ti, MaxQDA etc.. Regards Pentti Luoma -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Puolesta Magnus Larsson Lähetetty: 20. toukokuuta 2010 9:46 Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask] Aihe: Software for managing as opposed to analyzing data Hi all! This might be an odd question, however, I have struggled with it for quite some time: I am looking for software to manage, as opposed to analyze, qualitative data. My example: we have conducted a study of a bank, by interviewing a lot of people and shadowing a number of managers. This has resulted in a large amount of files, containing: - notes (fieldnotes) - audio recordings of interviews - transcripts of these interviews - audio recordings of "observations", that is, shadowing managers for many hours - notes describing these recordings - transcriptions of parts of these recordings - memos and general notes Much of the material can be organized in "cases", that is "everything related to manager X in branch Y". However, just arraning the files is not sufficient. We need notes and stories, like summaries of every day, lists of "interesting interactions containing a manager and a subordinate" etc, that is, along more than one dimension. Further, much of the observations become split into much smaller segments, with focal interactions etc, producing more files, that we need to keep track of. Phew. We've been working with spreadsheets and I've fiddled with a home-made SQL database to manage all this. I believe the SQL database is a good way, but it takes more programming and database design competencies than we can easily muster. I've been searching the literature and the web, including sourceforge.org, to find somthing useful to help us with this. This task can partly be solved by using Nvivo and similar programs, but that does not feel like a good solution (using analysis software for management purposes). So: anyone has any suggestions for how to move forward on this? Anyone recognize the issue? Oh yes: whatever it is would need to be for cooperation. Web-based, preferably. Best, Magnus Larsson Copenhagen Business School