Very cool Thomas...Dedoose will also soon be releasing an IPad version  
and the Android is already on the market...so Don and other Android  
folk might want to check that out:  
https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.Dedoose.DedooseTabletClient

Cheers,

Eli




Quoting Don Robotham <[log in to unmask]>:

> What about us Android users Thomas? Look at those beautiful
> soon-to-be-unbanded tablets popping up in Berlin!
>
>
>
> Don
>
>
>
> From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Thomas Muhr
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:25 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CAQDAS for netbooks
>
>
>
> Ok, we are working on a native iPad version that is due to be ready in 2012
> after we have released the A7. Some have already seen the promising
> prototype running at the BMT 2011. The goal is to have something neatly
> integrated into the iPad UI philosophy (I must confess, some workflows are
> much neater on an iPad)  and offer a streamlined set of basic and not so
> basic functionality for the researcher in the field. It will support a
> variety of data formats, e.g. text, images, multimedia. It will support
> note-taking and recording in the field. Selecting, coding, linking,
> maintaining your code repository, etc. The data exchange path will be the
> ATLAS.ti XML specs - also used by some of our competitors!-) Project
> exchange can be via mail attachments, networked or cloud disks (e.g.
> Dropbox), depending on the availability and data security level you have to
> take into account.
>
>
>
> There is also another option to work with ATLAS.ti - or any other desktop
> software complying to certain technical necessities - on iPads or even
> iPhones. Running ATLAS.ti in a sufficiently fast connected terminal server
> session (e.g. Citrix or remote desktop) works surprisingly well, including
> drag & drop and all the other GUI related stuff. The good thing here: no
> data at all needs to be transferred over possibly slow and endangered lines.
> This  is also a way to access ATLAS.ti and your products even without a
> rucksack: just sit down at the hotel's public terminal and connect to your
> server.
>
>
>
> So much from the "garage".
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
> From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of ANN
> LEWINS
> Sent: Sonntag, 20. November 2011 13:16
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CAQDAS for netbooks
>
>
>
> Good discussion.... I hope ALL the developers didn't miss Susanne Friese's
> brilliant suggestion at the end of her last message. I wonder if CAQDAS
> packages are about to go (or have already gone) beyond a tipping point in
> complexity. Though its difficult to resist technology - developers should
> not forget the context researchers find themselves in - a simple rucksack
> version would simplify everything down to the essentials for the researcher
> with all sorts of immediate and practical constraints in the field.
> Dear developers -  I'd add a small memo function to Susanne's rucksack
> edition.
> Ann Lewins
>
>> Dear developers - what about a scaled down version just for coding  in the
> field, the coded data later to be transferred to the full version with all
> the bells and whistles?
>
> Susanne
>
> On 17 November 2011 18:27, Susanne Friese < <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Ian,
>
>
>> Atlas.ti or NVivo are too resource intensive to run smoothly on a netbook.
>
> Ever worked with ATLAS.ti?
>
> The installation file is rather small, files are managed externally, thus
> you don't add much to the size of the data source files, the project file
> usually remains quite small
>
> But even if working with internal files, in a recent project I had 40
> interviews, about 1700 pages of transcripts. The fully coded project was
> less than 1 MB.
>
> regarding a web based software like Dedoose, I doubt that one is online all
> the time, when working in the field. In addition, I think at least, the
> focus is on a mixed-method approach, highly reliant on code queries in
> relation to variables. I tried to code in Dedoose as I usually do with
> either MAXQDA or ATLAS.ti. It did not work, it was very frustrating - until
> I looked at their example project. One needs to work in a different way, it
> works best if one marks full length paragraphs and then attaches all codes
> that apply to the section.
>
> Thus, you should have an idea about what you want with your data. The
> analysis tools are not all the same.
>
> As others pointed out - netbooks have limited screen space and it will be
> less fun as compared to working on a big screen with all of these packages.
>
> Dear developers - what about a scaled down version just for coding  in the
> field, the coded data later to be transferred to the full version with all
> the bells and whistles?
>
> Susanne
>
>
>
>



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Eli Lieber, Ph.D.

Associate Research Psychologist
UCLA
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
NPI-Center for Culture and Health
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