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What is OpenQDA? ​

OpenQDA is a sustainable, free/libre Open Source Software for collaborative qualitative data analysis.

It is developed by the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research) at the University of Bremen and publicly available under https://openqda.org. There, it is hosted at the university's infrastructure.

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Software Freedom ​

OpenQDA intends to be as free as possible. This means for you, that

  • you are free to use our hosted version
  • you are free to get the software and host it on your own infrastructure
  • you are free to change, distribute and anything else, allowed by the software license
  • you are free to publish you data, processed within OpenQDA (other rules and laws about scientific practice and publishing data remain untouched)

QDA Workflow ​

Currently, OpenQDA follows a generic fundamental QDA workflow, which may be subject to future changes and improvements.

  • Preparation - project and data management.
  • Coding - the actual process of assigning codes and refining your data
  • Analysis - analyzing and visualizing your coded sources

Collaboration ​

OpenQDA is still under constant development and provides a limited set of collaboration features:

  • you can collaborate in teams
  • you can view who is working on which page
  • you can collaboratively code the same source

Future versions will include more complete collaboration features. You can keep track of them in our roadmap.