Important note
OpenQDA is still under development and there are many parts left out or still in discussion!
See our development roadmap for ongoing and upcoming features and fixes.
OpenQDA is a sustainable, free/libre Open Source Software for collaborative qualitative data analysis.
It's developed by the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research) at the University of Bremen.
It's publicly available under https://openqda.org and is hosted on servers, integrated in the university's infrastructure.
If you are a user and want to learn OpenQDA, then we advise you to read the user documentation.
If you are still unsure about what OpenQDA is or does, then please consult our FAQ.
- 🚀 Register and test it now (early access): https://openqda.org
- 📔 Read the user-docs: https://openqda.github.io/user-docs/
- 📢 Give feedback and join the discussion: https://github.com/openqda/feedback
- 📧 Contact us: openqda@uni-bremen.de
We are constantly updating our development roadmap in regard to the upcoming releases:
If you have reached this section, chances are high your either want one of the following:
- run OpenQDA on your own infrastructure
- understand OpenQDA or hack a local version of OpenQAD
- improve OpenQDA
- learn research software engineering with OpenQDA as an example project
We provide an extensive developer documentation in the /docs folder.
Here are the quick links to the guides:
- tech stack
- architecture overview
- installation guide
- core development
- plugin development
- deployment guide
We provide a citation file to enable citations of this software. OpenQDA is entirely free, so we encourage you to
The "aTrain" plugin for transcription is developed and licensed by Armin Haberl, Jürgen Fleiß, Dominik Kowald, Stefan Thalmann and is published under
Haberl, A., Fleiß, J., Kowald, D., Thalmann, S., 2023. “Take the aTrain. Introducing an Interface for the Accesible Transcription of Interviews.”, University of Graz, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Working Paper 2023-02.
Please note, that if you use the auto-transcription feature in OpenQDA then you must cite their work in your publication under certain conditions. Please read their license for this.
OpenQDA is a sustainable, free/libre Open Source Software for collaborative qualitative research. Copyright (C) 2024 ZeMKI, Universität Bremen
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
The core software of this project is released under the APGL-3.0 license, which you can read in our license file.
Plugins (which includes services) may be distributed under a different license. Please see their own license files in their respective directories