Atlas.ti
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| Developer(s) | ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH |
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| Stable release | 6.2 / 2010-11-01 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Text, audio, video analysis |
| License | proprietary |
| Website | www.atlasti.com |
ATLAS.ti is a computer software program used mostly, but not exclusively, in qualitative research or qualitative data analysis.
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[edit] Development history
A prototype of ATLAS.ti was developed by Thomas Muhr at Technical University in Berlin in the context of project ATLAS (1989–1992). A first commercial version of ATLAS.ti was released in 1993 to the market by company "Scientific Software Development," later ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH.
[edit] Description
The purpose of ATLAS.ti is to help researchers uncover and systematically analyze complex phenomena hidden in text and multimedia data. The program provides tools that let the user locate, code, and annotate findings in primary data material, to weigh and evaluate their importance, and to visualize complex relations between them.
ATLAS.ti consolidates large volumes of documents and keeps track of all notes, annotations, codes and memos in all fields that require close study and analysis of primary material consisting of text, images, audio, video, and geo data.
In addition, it provides analytical and visualization tools designed to open new interpretative views on the material
[edit] Features overview
- Coding of text, image, audio and video materials (interactive and automated)
- Rich text and Rich Media support with embedded active objects (MS Excel, images, etc., incl. East Asian and Middle Eastern language)
- Word documents via “on-the-fly” RTF conversion.
- Full native PDF Support (original layout) without conversion
- Google Earth Geodata Integration
- Text-to-media Synchronization
- On-Board Transcription Engine
- “Live” editable documents with dynamic multi-project update
- Interactive margin area with drag & drop linking, coding, merging
- On-screen coding (drag & drop)
- Search & retrieve functions (incl. Boolean, semantic, and proximity-based operators)
- Visual model building and "mind mapping" (Network Editor with auto-color node visualization)
- Creation and navigation of hyperlinks between resources (Hypertext)
- Searching for textual patterns (Object Crawler)
- Semi-automatic coding with multi-string text search and professional pattern matching ("GREP")
- Proximity analysis of coded data (Cooccurrency Explorer)
- Project data export to SPSS, HTML, XML, CSV
- Creation of presentations (XML/XSLT converter including stylesheets)
- SPSS, word frequency, and coding table export to Excel
- East Asian and Middle Eastern language support
- Single compressed file project backup and migration.
- Table based bulk assignment of primary documents plus attributes (“families”)
[edit] Usage
ATLAS.ti is used by researchers and practitioners in a wide variety of fields including anthropology, arts, architecture, communication, criminology, economics, educational sciences, engineering, ethnological studies, management studies, and sociology.
