Need
information on software and informed comparisons?
Much is happening across the wide
world of software development. The adventure and creativeness of
software development that lit the early years of qualitative computing
is far from dead. The good news is that for qualitative researchers
worldwide, there is a growing range of software available, many
directions of development, many close to research worlds and promising
continuing innovation, initiative and intelligent debate.
The CAQDAS project in the UK keeps up to date
reviews of all software - go to
their website for
guidance.
Need
to see software and discuss it? If you missed the Technology in Qualitative Research (TQR) meeting in May, line up for next
year's.
Qualitative researchers with an interest in the technologies of
qualitative research have been invited to participate in the first-ever
Technology in Qualitative Research Pre-Conference day
at the conference on Qualitative Inquiry, 2008.
For the
archive
Highlights of the past decade
of my work for QSR were two series of conferences on the
research implications of software use. Driven by the
excitement of discussion and
sharing of experiences in using and teaching QSR software,
and drawing on the growing community thinking about it,
these very unusual and productive
academic conference series
provided stimulation for researchers and feedback for
developers.
Very symbolically, both have now ended, but the
links are below for those who want to pursue papers
given, or maybe reflect on what can be achieved by such
cooperation.
The
Qualitative Strategies
conference
still has a website, set up for the
conference series hosted
first in London (from 1999) then at Durham University,
UK. The site stores past conference
papers, and carries information about a possible working
paper series for users of any qualitative software.
The
Teaching Qualitative Research
Conference at
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
will continue as a broader series of events - watch their
website.
