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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.

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

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

Hsui-Fang Hsieh and Sarah E. Shannon in Qualitative Health Research Nov 2005, vol 15 (9). Only abstract is available here for free. For full-text, check with your local library. Abstract describes the difference between conventional, directive, and summative approaches to content analysis.

Posted by Graham R. Gibbs on June 19 2010. This is part 2 of 4 on open coding, part of the grounded theory technique of qualitative analysis.

Posted by speaker Graham R. Gibbs on YouTube, June 19 2010. Gibbs discusses open coding for qualitative analysis. Part 1 of 4.

By Laura S. Quinn, Idealware, January 2012. Looks at a variety of software tools that can support program evaluation. Report includes a category on Analyzing and Displaying Your Measures, which might be most relevant. There are recommendations for report builders, tools that help create data visualizations, both quantitative and qualitative analysis tools, and dashboard recommendations.  Also reference to an organization called Innovation Network, which might be of interest.

This project was completed in December 2006 and has now been archived.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As of Sept 2012, this project page seems out of date (last updated June 2009); project may be completed.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."

This is a free service of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), maintained by Texifter. (See QDAP tag) . Tools in this toolkit facilitate coding of text data sets, enable annotation with shared memos, and provide tools to assist with managing team collaborations (permissions, etc.)

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.

Slide-show overview by Dr. Lynn Calman, Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester. In this brief overview, Kalman hits on the high points of grounded theory, with citations.

From their site, "VideoDiary™ Blog is a versatile, reliable consumer research tool" that might be used to create a "research blog community."