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By Amanda Coffey, Cardiff School of Social Sciences. Coffey has conducted ethnographic research in a digital environment. This powerpoint hits on some keywords and key features of her projects.

Keywords/acronyms: CAQDAS (computer aided qualitative data analysis software); enthographic hypermedia environment. Interesting ideas: multimodality (different insights with different media); activity of writing interwoven with analysis; archiving data; managing complexity; readers can potentially interact with entire data set; secondary analysis; innovative publications; new ways of "reading" qualitative inquiry

By Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996. This book forwards the idea of qualitative researchers using a single data set analyzing using a number of different techniques.

Profile page from Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Page includes tabs for publications and projects. There are also useful links from the overview page.

This project was completed in December 2006 and has now been archived. The online guide (link from this page) is of interest. Focus in this work: data sharing and archiving.

As of Sept 2012, this project page seems out of date (last updated June 2009); project may be completed. From the About Qualti page Mission Statement, "We begin from a position that methodology is a distinctive form of social practice and knowledge production, and that research methods must be considered with/in the social contexts in which they are practised."

From the Online Guide to Methodological Issues in Qualitative Data Sharing and Archiving.