[edu-eu]Software for qualitative research in education

[Alban Deniz]

Hello,

I am developing a GTK-based program to enable researchers to perform
qualitative analysis of text-based data.  The program is named "qualres" (for
Qualitative Research), and copylefted under GPL.  It is a Free alternative to
proprietary software such as NUD*IST Vivo (NVivo) and Ethnograph. It has a user
base of three, including two doctoral candidates in education who are using
qualres to perform categorical analysis for their dissertations.

Toby Cabot (address@hidden) suggested that you would like to hear about the
program.  You can use qualres to create and import text into documents, create
categories, and code text. You can group documents and categories into sets.
Sets can also contain other sets. You can search the documents, categories, and
sets for text, and put the results into a category. This software is of
interest to anyone who performs categorical research (education, psychology,
etc).

If qualres sounds like something you'd might be interested in, please let me
know and I'll tell you more about it.  You can download a distribution tarball
at http://www.baker-research.com/software.html.  The user documentation needs
work, and I have built it on only one platform (Mandrake 7.1 with Gnome 2
libraries).

If you know of anyone else who might be interested in such a program, please
let me know.

Thanks,
Alban
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Alban Deniz, Ph.D.
Baker Research, Ltd.
Making research and computers more effective
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http://www.baker-research.com
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