TRANSANA

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TRANSANA

• A Tool for the Transcription and
• Qualitative Analysis of Video

NPACI All Hands Meeting Education, Outreach, and
Training Tutorial March 18, 2003 David K.
Woods Wisconsin Center for Education
Research University of Wisconsin, Madison
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TRANSANAA tool for the transcription and
qualitative analysis of video data
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TRANSANA is

• Software for the transcription and qualitative
  analysis of video.
• Designed for Education Research, but used in a
  wide variety of fields and settings.
• Designed to handle large video collections.
• Designed to facilitate collaborative analysis
  over a distance.
• Available for free at http//www.transana.org.

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Todays Video for analysis

• 3rd graders in Wisconsin.
• Studying fast plant growth in a combined Science
  (growth, life cycle) and Math (representation,
  modeling) curriculum.
• Students are asked to model the plant growth
  theyve measured.
• Along the way, they discover Pi.
• Research Question How did the teacher promote
  and facilitate this?

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TRANSANA Basics

• Four main windows
• Import and transcribe video
• Dublin Core Metadata
• File Management interface connects to SRB
• View and study your video
• Transcript is linked to video via Time Codes

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TRANSANA for Analysis

• Identify analytically interesting portions
• Create and apply Keywords
• Selected Clips, Locate Clip in Episode
• Reports
• Keyword Usage Report
• Keyword Map
• Search Interface
• Complex Search requests
• Search Results can be converted to Collections

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TRANSANA for Case Development

• Collection and Clip copying
• Clip Sort Order
• Presentation Mode
• Play All Clips
• Collection Summary Report

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TRANSANA and the SRB in the present

• Transana is designed to facilitate collaborative
  analysis, can be used for distance collaboration.
• The problems with video file size and bandwidth
• The solution Storage Resource Broker
  integration
• Storage and backup of massive video collections
• Allows controlled sharing of video
• Allows secure copying of Human Subject Data

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TRANSANA and the SRBin the future

• On the fly video streaming?
• Video format conversion?
• Quick and dirty video editing??
• Publishing and sharing of keyworded collections

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TRANSANA

• http//www.transana.org.
• Its FREE.
• We are currently working on a cross-platform,
  open-source version.