Tools: Transana

Transana
http://www.transana.org/

Description: “Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.”

Cost/legal restrictions: Transana is licensed under the GNU/GPL license; purchase and licensing details are at the Transana is Open Source page. Source code is available from the Sourceforge Transana project page.

Notes: Developed at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Part of the Digital Insight project.