Dear #QualitativeResearch people! 🎙️
We need your help - more specifically, your exported projects 🙂 We're working on a way to liberate qualitative projects from Closed, proprietary software such as NVivo, Atlas, MaxQDA, Dedoose, etc.
This project will allow converting projects exported to the REFI-QDA file format to the Reproducible Open Coding Kit project format, which is much more accessible, much simpler to work with in other software, and so lends itself better for #OpenScience.
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If you use proprietary qualitative analysis software, it would be great if you can help.
To test and improve this new software ({qualchemy} 🔮), we need two things:
1️⃣ More exported projects (in REFI-QDA format) file so we can test imports;
2️⃣ Tests where a project exported by {qualchemy} is imported into proprietary software.
In return, we will happily give you an intro re: the Reproducible Open Coding Kit (the ROCK 🤘) and help you open up your projects if you want.
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The Reproducible Open Coding Kit (the ROCK 🤘) is a standard for open qualitative research, born in 2018, and with v1 in https://doi.org/qcf6, a tutorial in https://doi.org/jrfb, and more basics at https://sciencer.eu/posts/2024-12-rock-basics.html
With an NWO #OpenScience grant, Szilvia Zorgo and me are now working on a number of new resources for the ROCK, and one is the #RStats package {qualchemy} 🔮, which converts between REFI-QDA projects (whihc Atlas, NVivo, MaxQDA, Dedoose export to) and ROCK projects.
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By the way - the actual *development* on {qualchemy} is done by the awesome @romainfrancois - highly recommended if you have any #Rstats needs or wishes 🤩
