Dear Alex and users of Weft - I have used other ethnographic software programs previously and was delighted to use Weft in my current project as its simplicity to learn was important for the people working with me. One feature that would be helpful for my current and other large projects is the ability to merge two halves of a project after two individuals have each completed coding a different half of the transcripts. That would allow running reports on the entire project rather than separately for each half. Is this a feature that is possible and I missed that information in the manual? If not, is there some way around this problem that I could use? I apologize if this question is redundent - I posted it previously but am new to using list serves and did not see a response in the digest. Thank you for your help, Roberta -- Roberta E. Goldman, Ph.D. Cl. Associate Professor of Family Medicine Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island 111 Brewster Street Pawtucket, RI 02860 Tel: 401-729-2924 Fax: 401-729-2494 roberta_goldman at mhri.org
Hi Roberta Hi Roberta Thanks for your email; I''m glad your team are finding Weft usable and useful. Roberta_Goldman wrote:> One feature that would be helpful for my current and other large > projects is the ability to merge two halves of a project after two > individuals have each completed coding a different half of the > transcripts.There isn''t such a feature at present in Weft. The current version 1.0 only really supports one person working on a project at a time. But it''s a feature I think is useful and feasible - I''m interested in pursuing this as I also have a number of projects coming up where we might want to do this. A ''merge'' could work in a couple of ways - perhaps you could tell me how you like to work. Here''s a few ideas - I''m interested in what other people think of these too, for the purposes of an interim Weft 2 release... - Are the individual coders working on different documents, using the same set of categories or ''codebook''? In which case you might want simply to join the documents and coding together. - Or are they working on the same documents, using the same codebook - and if so, are you interested in a metric of inter-coder reliability? - Or are they working on the same documents, evolving their own analytic frame? If so, how would the categories from different projects sit alongside each other? - Would it be helpful to enable people to work on the same project simultaneously from different workstations, even from different sites - I have prototyped this feature, and am wondering if it''s worth developing further?> If not, is there > some way around this problem that I could use? >I''m not sure I can think of one for now, other that copying and pasting or combining exported text in a word processor. Thanks again for your interest Alex
======= 2006-11-16 19:32:57 ????????======>Hi Roberta >Hi Roberta > >Thanks for your email; I''m glad your team are finding Weft usable and >useful. > >Roberta_Goldman wrote: >> One feature that would be helpful for my current and other large >> projects is the ability to merge two halves of a project after two >> individuals have each completed coding a different half of the >> transcripts. >There isn''t such a feature at present in Weft. The current version 1.0 >only really supports one person working on a project at a time. But it''s >a feature I think is useful and feasible - I''m interested in pursuing >this as I also have a number of projects coming up where we might want >to do this. > >A ''merge'' could work in a couple of ways - perhaps you could tell me how >you like to work. Here''s a few ideas - I''m interested in what other >people think of these too, for the purposes of an interim Weft 2 release... > >- Are the individual coders working on different documents, using the >same set of categories or ''codebook''? In which case you might want >simply to join the documents and coding together. > >- Or are they working on the same documents, using the same codebook - >and if so, are you interested in a metric of inter-coder reliability? > >- Or are they working on the same documents, evolving their own analytic >frame? If so, how would the categories from different projects sit >alongside each other? > >- Would it be helpful to enable people to work on the same project >simultaneously from different workstations, even from different sites - >I have prototyped this feature, and am wondering if it''s worth >developing further? >> If not, is there >> some way around this problem that I could use? >> >I''m not sure I can think of one for now, other that copying and pasting >or combining exported text in a word processor.Is it much easier for Openoffice format rather than MS word processor? After all, the odt format is an open standard.>Thanks again for your interest >Alex > >_______________________________________________ >weft-qda-users mailing list >weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ??? 2006-11-16 ------ Deparment of Sociology Fudan University,Shanghai,China PRC My current Email: ronggui.huang at gmail.com
??? wrote:>> I''m not sure I can think of one for now, other that copying and pasting >> or combining exported text in a word processor. >> > > Is it much easier for Openoffice format rather than MS word processor? > After all, the odt format is an open standard. >I was just thinking of using simple cut and paste, which should work with a variety of word-processors and other desktop applications. But you''re right that the OpenOffice odt format is an open standard, and could be supported as an export format. It''s XML based, and any new version of Weft is going to support XML import (Transcriber) and export features. Feel free to submit a feature request for ODT - but I think I would be inclined to give higher priority to ensuring that more generic formats eg HTML, text, XML work properly. alex