There have been some significant developments with the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT). The system is becoming steadily more robust and we have over 300 beta testers with user accounts. The system is currently free and will, in the next year, be released as Open Source under a General Public License. Anyone can set up a web-based account and load raw or ATLAS.ti-coded data to take advantage of the reliability and validity tools, as well as the coding module for raw data. http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm Although I am moving to UMass Amherst to join the political science department in the fall, the lab I created (QDAP) will continue here and I will retain some sort of active affiliation. We are one of the only fee-for-service coding labs in North America (if you know of others, please let me know). Our coders logged over 5,900 coding hours this fiscal year and our transcriptionists completed 2,500 hours of transcription. QDAP is housed in a University-wide research center and services a wide range of NIH-, NIMH-, NSF-, and DARPA-funded PIs. The QDAP model is not for everyone, but I can say we have a growing list of happy customers, especially those working in the mixed methods tradition. http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/testimonials.htm ~Stu ________________________________________________________ Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Associate Professor Director, Sara Fine Institute http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/ School of Information Sciences Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program University Center for Social and Urban Research http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place, Suite 600 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f) http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net ________________________________________________________ -- Neighborhood Team Leader Squirrel Hill - Point Breeze, PA Obama for America