Cassandre

Cassandre is a free collaborative text analysis platform based on semi-automatic labeling, concordance visualization and registry creation. It’s designed to assist researchers in human and social sciences, and it is an interactive tool for qualitative analysis.

It’s interactive in a sense that it allows to articulate a corpus of texts and research hypotheses and it’s also translated among users, since it allows different analysts to compare and compare their alternative interpretation of texts. In order to create a corpus or to deposit texts, to read these texts or to associate a corpus with a framework of analysis users interact with Cassandre like with any Internet site.

Users can also join to Cassandre mailing list and receive the announcement of the new features and the tips of the other users. This software is developed from scientific perspective so users might be interested in quoting some scientific literature about it.

Cassandre doesn’t do for example: counting the words, quantifying interviews, making lexicometry, establishing frequency tables or automatically generating factorial plans or theme maps. To install this software users will need to verify if Java 6 is available on the computer, then to install Porphyry on desktop, accept to execute the downloaded file with Java Web Start, if requested, to trust Aurélien Bénel and install a shortcut on the desktop.

Operations on the website are: list of texts already registered (requires a password), creating a new corpus, submitting a new text (in an existing corpus), associating a corpus with an analytical framework and creating labels, grouping them in registry, viewing the concordance of their occurrence or comparing different frames of analysis, users go through Porphyry. Operations performed via Porphyry: creating a marker, regrouping markers into registers, viewing matching of a marker or register and confronting frameworks of analysis. These operations require a password.