[Air-L] Web Pages and Qualitative Data Analysis

[Sharon Haleva Amir]

Dear Stefano, the 5th version of ATLAS.Ti allowed only the analysis of texts
saved in RTF format - Rich Text Files. The new 6th version has a special
feature which will allow you to convert PDF's to simple text files - see
here http://www.atlasti.com/downloads/newfeatures6.pdf. Bottom line every
document has to be converted to a plain RTF format doc before you can text
analyze it. 

Its price is my main obstacle as well - there's a free trial version on site
http://www.atlasti.com/demo.html 

Good luck, Sharon 

 

Best Wishes,
Sharon Haleva Amir, HCLT Fellow 
(PhD Candidate) Faculty of Law, 
University of Haifa, ISRAEL. 
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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stefano De Paoli
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:53 AM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Web Pages and Qualitative Data Analysis

Dear all,

we are starting Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA)of messages taken from
Internet forums that we have
saved as Web Pages (in HTML format) using the Firefox extension ScrapBook.

We are now looking for QDA software that will allow us to analyse
these Web Pages while keep the layout intact.
Our department has some licenses for NVIVO.

http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx

While in the process of importing our data into NVIVo (HTML files that

we have previously exported in PDF)  we discovered that this program
does not keep the original layout of the Web Page. From a PDF file NVIVO
just imports the text. In other words it seems that we cannot use
NVIVO for our analysis.


Surfing around the Internet we discovered that ATLAS.ti (another
QDA software) allows one to manage PDF files in a native mode (i.e. it
keeps the page layout intact).
http://www.atlasti.com/

However a single license for ATLAS costs 438 Euros (a bit
expensive), and before we buy a license we would like to
see if there are any other solutions available.


Have you ever had similar problems?
What type of software do you use for your QDA of Web Pages?
Do you have other solutions to suggest?

We look forward to your replies.

S.


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