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Latest revision as of 16:13, 12 October 2021
This document is intended to help you get started using Atlas.ti within the Dried Fish Matters project.
What is Atlas.ti?
Atlas.ti is a computer application used in qualitative data analysis (QDA), which is designed to help researchers identify and analyze themes in unstructured data.
QDA is a process of applying thematic codes to documents or segments within them, to aid in analysis. For example, individual responses within a series of interview transcripts could be annotated with thematic codes such as “wholesale price”, “well-being”, “labour”, “role of children”, and the like, matching the content of each response. QDA software can then aggregate all passages matching the same theme, providing a simple way of looking for commonalities and variations across a large dataset. For more detail, see Coding (social sciences) on Wikipedia.
Atlas.ti in DFM
The Dried Fish Matters project proposal identifies Atlas.ti as one of the “standard software tools” to be used in analyzing qualitative data.
Dried Fish Matters has a shared license to Atlas.ti with 15 "seats". This means that an unlimited number of people can download the software or use the online version of Atlas with the DFM license, but only 15 users can be active at a given time.
You are welcome to install the software on more than one computer within your team. Two or more members of your team may be able to use the application simultaneously, provided that the total number of users from across the DFM does not exceed 15. Please be sure to log out of the application when you exit, so that your "seat" can be occupied by someone else.
Creating an account
Visit web.atlasti.com and select the option "Create an Account". This will open a registration screen as seen in the screenshot below:
You will need to confirm your email address. On the account details page that opens up after you have registered, look for the "Activate License" option:
The license key will have been provided to you in an email from DFM. You may share this license code within your research team, but please keep it private.
Using the DFM license
The DFM license will give you access to Atlas.ti for Windows, Mac, or web (online) versions. The active user count is not tied to any specific platform, so you are welcome to shift between these different versions of Atlas.ti as needed.
Our license to the installed (desktop) versions of Atlas.ti does not expire. Access to the web version will continue until 2023.
We will initially provide technical support for the web version as it is simpler to use and convenient for shared use in remote work settings, but you are welcome to use the desktop version if you prefer. While the desktop interface is more complex, it is fully compatible with the web version, and you can move data back and forth between web and desktop applications as needed. Note that the desktop application provides more advanced features and supports a full range of document types (the cloud version only supports text documents, not images, videos, etc.) [1].
Using Atlas.ti web
Access Atlas.ti online at web.atlasti.com.
For an overview of the functions of Atlas.ti web, see the 20-minute screencast tutorial on our YouTube channel.
- ↑ For details see https://atlasti.com/atlas-ti-product-feature-comparison/. To allow different team members to work on document coding from different computers, it will likely be easier to use the web version. DO NOT use the desktop application with data in a shared storage directory (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox). If more than one person tries to access the data simultaneously, it is very likely to be corrupted.
