What is Transana?
Transana is an open source application for assisting in qualitative research. It provides tools to help researchers organize, transcribe, code, analyze, and search video and audio data to find relevant content and identify themes and patterns.
Some key features of Transana include:
- Tools for creating and organizing analytic media clips from larger media files
- Transcription editor for creating time-aligned transcripts
- Coding interfaces for applying keywords to media clips to identify themes
- Tools for creating complex collections of interrelated clips, transcripts, and coding
- Searching tools for finding and analyzing clips based on coding, transcripts or notes
- Collaboration tools for sharing media libraries and coding
- Report generation tools for analyzing and exporting data
- Compatible with all major media formats including WAV, MP3, MP4, WMA, MOV, AVI
Transana is designed to handle very large volumes of video and audio data and allow deep analysis. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports collaboration across platforms. The open source model allows researchers and institutions to modify and extend Transana to their needs.
NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, AQUAD, Dedoose, Taguette, RQDA, The Ethnograph, QualCoder, Quirkos, HyperResearch, f4analyse are some alternatives to Transana.