Anvil 4.0

program: Anvil 4.0
author: Michael Kipp
author: Michael Kipp
distributor: Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany
documentation: PC manual in PDF format
download: e-mail the author for a free copy
operating system(s): MS-Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris
description:
Anvil - written in Java - is a free video annotation tool, used at research institutes world-wide (see the Anvil User Web). It offers frame-accurate, hierarchical multi-layered annotation driven by user-defined annotation schemes. The intuitive annotation board shows color-coded elements on multiple tracks in time-alignment. Special features are cross-level links, non-temporal objects and a project tool for managing multiple annotations. Originally developed for Gesture Research, Anvil has also proved suitable for research in Human-Computer Interaction, Linguistics, Ethology, Anthropology, Psychotherapy, Embodied Agents, Computer Animation and many other fields.

Anvil can import data from the widely used, public domain phonetic tools PRAAT and XWaves which allow precise and comfortable speech transcription. Anvil can display waveform and pitch contour. Anvil's data files are XML-based. Special ASCII output can be used for import in statistical toolkits like SPSS. The Anvil system is written in Java and should run on Windows, Macintosh and Unix (Solaris/Linux) computers.

Aquad Five 6.0

program: Aquad Five 6.0
author: Günter L. Huber (in German)
distributor: Verlag Inge Huber, Tübingen
documentation: English manual German manual Spanish manual
download: English trial for 30 days      German trial for 30 days
operating system: MS-Windows
description: This version can process audio and video material, older versions cannot. Text interpretation by one-step coding with the data text and a master code list on the screen. Text interpretation by two-step coding with a print-out of your text with a master code list and highlighted text segments on the screen. Coding by clicking (into an automatically maintained master code list).
Variable lenght of codes, maximum 22 characters.
Word analysis: Counting of single words, analysis with word lists ("dictionaries"), differentiation of speakers "Speaker codes" allow to analyse parts of texts produced by different speakers (or answers to different questions).
Practically unlimited memos; copy text segments into your memos, retrieve them by text number, line numbers, code, particular key-word or parts of the memo text (full text search).
One, two or three level table analysis.
Linkage construction and analysis by clicking and drag-and-drop - no additional compiler and programming necessary.
Comparison of cases/texts by Boolean analysis of critical features ("logical minimization").

ATLAS.ti 5.0

program: ATLAS.ti 5
author: Thomas Muhr
distributor: ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH
documentation: full manual in PDF format or a quick tour
download: trial version

operating system: MS-Windows
description:

• Object-oriented graphical user interface
• Processing of textual, graphical, audio, and video data.
• Intuitive and easy on-screen coding (drag & drop)
• Flexible definition of data segments
• Simultaneous display of data segments in context, codes, and memos
• Virtually unlimited number of documents, segments, codes, and memos
• "Mind mapping" & graphical network editing
• Assign annotations to all type of units, data segments, codes, memos, etc.
• Theory building & reuse: Create & transfer knowledge networks between projects
• Generate PROLOG code for building knowledge based systems
• Link data segments with Hypertext capabilities
• Powerful retrieval tool with Boolean, semantic, and proximity based operators
• Super codes capture hypothesis
• Easy document-based handling
• Object Explorer: a hierarchical browser for navigating inside the project
• Time based backup mechanism: No frustration even after power failures
• XML data ex- and import
• Generation of HTML format for publication of research on the World Wide Web

Code-A-Text was deleted, because it belongs to C-I-SAID

C-I-SAID - Code-A-Text Integrated System for the Analysis of Interviews and Dialogues

program: C-I-SAID
author: Alan Cartwright
distributor: Code-A-Text Ltd
documentation: user guide
download: test version
operating system(s): MS-Windows
description: CISAID has evolved from the earlier Code-A-Text Multi-Media System and has been designed to provide methods and tools of both qualitative and quantitative analysis whilst retaining the links to the source data (text, audio, video). In CISAID you will find sophisticated ways to organise and search source data, along side tabulations and graphical representations of that data. Statistical tests are included because they often provide a way of indicating the comparative strength of a relationship.

ELAN 3.1.0 - EUDICO Linguistic Annotator

program: ELAN 3.1.0
author: Birgit Hellwig
distributor: MPI Psycholinguistic
documentation: manual and a starting guide
download: free version including source code (GNU license)
operating system(s): MS-Windows, Linux, MacOS, Mac OS-X
description: multimedia annotator which is under active development. Seems to be the sucessor to ShoeBox.

HyperResearch 2.8

program: HyperResearch 2.8
authors: S. Hesse-Biber, P. Dupuis, T. S. Kinder

distributor: Researchware, Inc.
documentation: tutorials
download: test version
operating systems: MS-Windows, MacOS-X, PowerPPC
description: Easy-to-Use "Point and Click" Interface: featuring pull-down menus, click-and-drag selection, and keyboard shortcuts for those who prefer keyboard commands to mouseclicks.
Multi-Media Capabilities: HyperRESEARCH allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video source material. Displayed reports include hyperlinks to underlying source material.
Comprehensive Code-and-Retrieve Functions: HyperRESEARCH allows you to select any chunk of text (from 1 character to an entire file) and apply any number of code names to the chunk. Recall your codes by name, or select them based on proximity to other codes. View codes in context, in the margin of your Source (Text) Window; or create an exportable report that organises the specific data you ask for by case or by code name. Reports can be hyperlinked back to the original source material.
Code Annotation (Memoing) and Descriptions: Select a code reference on a case card, click the annotate button, and add up to 32,000 characters of information per reference. Use the Code List Editor to enter a code definition for any of your master codes.
Expanded Autocoding: Autocode multiple sources to multiple cases, looking for multiple phrases in a single pass. Specify a number of characters, words, or lines before and/or after the found phrases to be included in the chunk selected for autocoding.
Code Mapping: Use the Code Map Window to graphically represent relationships between your master codes.
Hypothesis Testing: Use the Artificially Intelligent "Expert System" provided by the Hypothesis Tester to perform in-depth analyses of your coded data to see whether the coding supports your hypothesis.

Qualrus

program: Qualrus
operating system: MS-Windows
Note, the program may work on a Mac under Virtual PCTM, and on many Unix clones under WINE, but those are not officially supported.
author and distributor: >Edward Brent, Idea Works, Inc.
documentation: none
description:

• Easy-to-use graphical interface
• Able to analyze multimedia sources including text, graphics, video, and audio (supported formats include rtf, mp3, mpg, avi and more)
• Flexible character-level specification of data segments
• Memos can be attached to any object, including segment, project, source, code, code assignments, link types, link assignments
• Powerful search tool for Boolean and semantic searches
• Graphical network for visualizing relationships among codes, developing theory, and mind mapping
• Project tree for easy overview and navigation within the project
• Automatic backup of data to enhance data security
• HTML output and reports for viewing with standard web browsers and publication on the web
• Merge facility to import data from other projects or merge versions of the same project in group work
• Adopt theoretical framework from one project for use with another entirely different set of data
• No practical limit on number of documents, segments, codes, or memos
• Interactive viewer can be distributed freely permitting others to examine and view data
• Powerful scripting engine

Tatoe, Textbase alpha and Textbase beta were removed.

Transana 2.20

program: Transana 2.20
author: Transana was originally created by Chris Fassnacht. It is now developed and maintained by David K. Woods at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
documentation: online help in English and Finnish
download: demo version
operating system: MS-Windows, MacOS X
description:
Transana is an open source project and can be used to

• Identify and easily access the analytically significant portions of their video data.
• Organize video clips (from the same or from different video files) into meaningful categories, as a mechanism for developing and expanding the theoretical understanding of what the video shows.
• Apply searchable analytic keywords to these video clips.
• Engage in complex data mining and hypothesis testing across large video collections.
• Share analytic markup with distant colleagues to facilitate collaborative analysis.