On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretf...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> 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). Interestingly, I saw ads for MaxQDA plastered everywhere at the American Anthropological Association conference recently, and immediately thought that the best way to go about implementing a free alternative would be on top of Emacs. Really all it would take would be a few functions to add user tags as text properties, and then some stuff for browsing those tags and doing some simple analysis on them. I mentioned this possibility to my wife, who is the linguistic anthropologist in the family, and hence the prospective user of this, and she categorically shot down the idea of using emacs for handling her data, on the basis of user-unfriendliness. But it's interesting to see that our thoughts are running along the same lines. I'd love to work on this kind of thing (whether based on emacs or as a standalone GPL application), but I'm afraid I can't do it unless I can be paid for it. :( _______________________________________________ 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
