Hi all, especially you org developers out there Org mode would be a nice base for bringing a good QDA-Software to the world of free software, isn't it? QDAS is a special type of software for qualitative data analysis[¹], mostly used in Sociology and related fields of Science. Existing programs like Atlas.ti[²] and MaxQDA[³] are what I deem the essence of proprietary stuff: very expensive, elitist and utterly unfree (but widely used by research groups who have enough money at their disposal).
AFAIK, there is only one piece of QDA software available for Linux, gTAMS Analyzer, which is quite awkward in my opinion. I often advocate QDAS to students and PhD students for managing Discourse Analysis projects, and its always embarrassing to push them to expensive programs. But I think org-mode is just one step away from being a powerful QDAS, especially with org-babel, I think. This lack in the world of free software might be only a small addon-package away. It would be the first cross-platform solution, and group functionalities could be implemented via git, CVS or SVN. To my regret, I'm just a devoted user, in no way a developer. Is any developer out there who deems this a worthwhile project? Students all over the world would be grateful (if we manage to make it known via Google and Wikipedia). Greetings Sven [¹] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research. [²] http://www.atlasti.com/en/. [³] http://www.maxqda.com/. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
