Comments on: Field-tagged data http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/field-tagged-data/ Stata, Sociology, and Diffusion Models Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:53:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Randall Stross http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/field-tagged-data/#comment-181 Randall Stross Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:08:58 +0000 http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/?p=319#comment-181 I always enjoyed reading Franzosi's work. He covers the topic quite well. Gabriel, yes human readability is a big concern for a lot of these formats. It's part of the main reasons for the existence of XML as well. I always enjoyed reading Franzosi’s work. He covers the topic quite well.

Gabriel, yes human readability is a big concern for a lot of these formats. It’s part of the main reasons for the existence of XML as well.

]]> By: gabrielrossman http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/field-tagged-data/#comment-179 gabrielrossman Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:56:42 +0000 http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/?p=319#comment-179 field-tagged data is still in the same case/variable paradigm as rectangular data and so it's pretty different from meta-text tagging of the sort used in qualitative analysis. i've never seriously looked into QDA but my understanding is that what <a href="http://www.atlasti.com/" rel="nofollow">atlas.ti</a> and similar programs do is keep the literary text, archival documents, fieldnotes, or whatever, as a narrative but allow you to tag the meta-text. this then builds up what is effectively a turbo-charged index or concordance. all i can say is that i suggest you talk to people who do that kind of research and ask them whether the concordance and related features are worth the investment. btw, the last post i had on anything touching on narrative analysis was this piece on <a href="http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/graphing-novels/" rel="nofollow">textarc</a> field-tagged data is still in the same case/variable paradigm as rectangular data and so it’s pretty different from meta-text tagging of the sort used in qualitative analysis. i’ve never seriously looked into QDA but my understanding is that what atlas.ti and similar programs do is keep the literary text, archival documents, fieldnotes, or whatever, as a narrative but allow you to tag the meta-text. this then builds up what is effectively a turbo-charged index or concordance. all i can say is that i suggest you talk to people who do that kind of research and ask them whether the concordance and related features are worth the investment.
btw, the last post i had on anything touching on narrative analysis was this piece on textarc

]]> By: Bobby Chen http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/field-tagged-data/#comment-178 Bobby Chen Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:03:36 +0000 http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/?p=319#comment-178 I've been reading Franzosi's papers and books in trying to figure out the best way to code for my dissertation data (which are discourse data). He keeps going on about the advantage to using a database structure to organizing discourse data. I am not sold (yet) on the analytical or even practical leverage of coding up language data using a database structure. I’ve been reading Franzosi’s papers and books in trying to figure out the best way to code for my dissertation data (which are discourse data). He keeps going on about the advantage to using a database structure to organizing discourse data. I am not sold (yet) on the analytical or even practical leverage of coding up language data using a database structure.

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