Transana is a software package used to analyze

digital video Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises ...

or audio data. Transana used to be a GPL licensed software, but has become proprietary software in recent releases.

Features

Transana lets the user analyze and manage your data,

transcribe Transcription refers to the process of converting sounds (voice, music etc.) into letters or musical notes, or producing a copy of something in another medium, including: Genetics * Transcription (biology), the copying of DNA into RNA, the fir ...

it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign

keyword Keyword may refer to: Computing * Keyword (Internet search), a word or phrase typically used by bloggers or online content creator to rank a web page on a particular topic * Index term, a term used as a keyword to documents in an information syste ...

s to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelecris en français fdp ated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The goal is to find a new way to focus on the

data In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted ...

, and manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.

History

Transana is a product of the Digital Insight Project, and it is being developed with funding from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

through the National Partnership for Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the

TalkBank TalkBank is a multilingual corpus established in 2002 and currently directed and maintained by Brian MacWhinney. The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication. It contains sample databases fro ...

Project at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

.Digital Insight: A Prototype Digital Media Research System
, Status: Completed Jan 31 2005, Leadership: Chris Thorn, Staff: David Woods, Projects, WCER

References

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Transana Review
(Linguistic Annotation Wiki)
"Choosing a CAQDAS Package" (Lewins & Silver 2006 working paper, pdf)
(review of Transana 2, among others)
"Transana 2.40: Distinguishing features and functions" (Lewins & Silver December 2009, pdf)
* Dempster, P. & Woods, D. (2011)
The Economic Crisis Through the Eyes of Transana.
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 12, 1 * Woods, D. & Dempster, P. (2011)
Tales from the Bleeding Edge: The Qualitative Analysis of Complex Video Data Using Transana.
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 12, 1

External links

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GitHub Code Repository of Transana
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Transana Free QDA software Free software programmed in Python Software that uses wxWidgets Free multilingual software Windows multimedia software MacOS multimedia software 2001 software Linguistic research software

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