[Linganth] qualitative coding software

[Alexander King]

ELAN is not easy to use or learn, but colleagues tell me that does not distinguish it from Atlas TI. ELAN is free (https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/ <https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/>) and generates xml files that are open source. It points to the media files, so they can be stored separately from transcription/annotation files. It has a transcription mode that works ok for me. The annotation tool is nice in that it can go on forever and you can re-arrange things depending on your needs at the moment. It has powerful search functions that I don’t fully know how to use. There is a pretty comprehensive instruction manual and if you know any linguist working on an endangered language, they probably have experience with it, too. ELAN can also be used to output DVD/video subtitles, although I haven’t done that yet. ELAN works on Mac/PC/Linux.

ELAN is designed for close transcription and annotation of audio and video files, so if you are doing that, I would recommend it. I found “Simple ELAN” pretty much useless, so don’t bother with that.

-Alex


> On 12 Dec, 2018, at 13:28, Kelly McCormick <kelly.mccorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 ELAN has worked well for transcription&gesture coding with all manner of export formats for time analysis etc.
> 
> KMc
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:06 AM Teruko Vida Mitsuhara <tmitsuhara at ucla.edu <mailto:tmitsuhara at ucla.edu>> wrote:
> I've used ELAN for all my multilingual audio and video data. It's open source and the standard tool for the MPI.
> 
> Best,
> Teruko
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:47 AM Conley Riner, Robin <conleyr at marshall.edu <mailto:conleyr at marshall.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Hello all, 
> 
> Forgive me if this has been answered on this listserv in the past, but do people have recommendations for qualitative coding software that works well with linguistic data, especially video recorded interaction? 
> 
> Thanks so much, 
> Robin 
> 
> Robin Conley Riner, PhD
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