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Qualitative Research Methods

Taguette

Taguette is a free, open-source tool for QDA of text data. You can use the software on your own device, on your own server or on the server provider by Taguette. With Taguette, users can import PDFs, Word Docs (.docx), Text files (.txt), HTML, EPUB, MOBI, Open Documents (.odt), and Rich Text Files (.rtf).

After uploading documents, users can highlight words, sentences, or paragraphs and tag them with the codes you create. All the work you do in Taguette is completely exportable, including tagged documents, codebooks, highlights for a specific tag, highlights for all tags, and a list of tags with their descriptions.

The following are some resources to help you get started with Taguette:

Geting Started with Taguette -from Taguette, this is a clear feature overview

Taguette: Qualitative Coding and Analysis -a self guided workshop from the University of Victoria library

Workshop Video: Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis Using Taguette and QualCoder, from the University of Albany Libraries

Qualcoder

Qualcoder is a free, open-source software for qualitative data analysis. QualCoder works off-line and is client-based, so it may not be the best tool for working collaboratively. However, QualCoder can be used for text and images, unlike some other free qualitative analysis tools, and supports tree-like tagging hierarchies.

Resources to get you started:

QualCoder Wiki