Digital Scholarship Centre

A powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data.

(Free) ELAN is an annotation tool for audio and video recordings.

(Free) FreeQDA is a software for professional qualitative research data analysis, such as interviews, manuscripts, journal articles, memos and field notes.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is an analytic technique that uses Boolean algebra to implement principles of comparison used by scholars engaged in the qualitative study of macro social phenomena.

(Free) If you need to solve a problem with text analysis or language processing, GATE is an open source software toolkit capable of solving almost any text processing problem: it has a mature and extensive community of developers, users, educators, students and scientists; it is used by corporations, SMEs, research labs and Universities worldwide; it has a world-class team of language processing developers.

(Free) A qualitative data analysis tool.

(Free, registration required) QCAmap can be used within research projects in e.g. Psychology, Sociology, Education, Economics, Linguistic Sciences, to analyze small and large amounts of any text material and images coming from interviews, group discussions, observation protocols, documents, open-ended questionnaire items and others. Qualitative Content Analysis is a strictly rule-guided procedure containing qualitative steps (assignment of categories to text passages and images) and quantitative steps (analysis of category frequencies).

(Free version) QDA Miner Lite is a free and easy-to-use version of our popular computer-assisted qualitative analysis software. It can be used for the analysis of textual data such as interview and news transcripts, open-ended responses, etc. as well as for the analysis of still images. It offers basic CAQDAS features such as:
- Importation of documents from plain text, RTF, HTML, PDF as well as data stored in Excel, MS Access, CSV, tab-delimited text files
- Importation from other qualitative coding software such as Atlas.ti, HyperResearch, Ethnograph, from transcription tools like Transana and Transcriber as well as from Reference Information System (.RIS) files.
- Intuitive coding using codes organized in a tree structure.
- Ability to add comments (or memos) to coded segments, cases, or the whole project.
- Fast Boolean text search tool for retrieving and coding text segments.
- Code frequency analysis with bar chart, pie chart, and tag clouds.
- Coding retrieval with Boolean (and, or, not) and proximity operators (includes, enclosed, near, before, after).
- Export tables to XLS, Tab Delimited, CSV formats, and Word format
- Export graphs to BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF formats.
- Single-file (*.qdp) project format.
- Interface and help file in English, French, and Spanish.

(Free) The award-winning qualitative data analysis software and research manager from Cambridge University. Most qualitative data analysis (QDA) revolves around the coding and recoding of endless PDF files. Qiqqa helps you make the best use of your time by taking the pain out of coding and tagging large PDF collections.

Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make information from important voice conversations instantly accessible and actionable. Recommended for transcription of interviews and meetings.

(Free) RDQA is a R package for Qualitative Data Analysis, a free qualitative analysis software application (BSD license). It works on Windows, Linux/FreeBSD and Mac OSX platforms. RQDA is an easy to use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data. At the moment it only supports plain text formatted data.

Taguette is a free and open-source tool for qualitative research. You can import your research materials, highlight and tag quotes, and export the results.

Text Analysis Markup System. It is a convention for identifying themes in texts (web pages, interviews, field notes). It was designed for use in ethnographic and discourse research.

Tosmana is a tool for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). The software can be used for csQCA (Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis) and mvQCA (Multi-Value QCA) calculations.