I'm a cultural anthropologist, I work on traditional knowledges and intangible cultural heritages. My main sources of data are audio and video recording that I analyse with a qualitative analysis software (I use Transana http://www.transana.org, but i can change if needed). I need to integrate the data from the qualitative analysis (video, audio, text and categories) in a GIS. I know that I can 'cut' clip video or audio clip and insert in the GIS like photos and text. But I need to keep clip in the context of registration for different motivation: 1. for interpretative purpose 2. Because the analysis will be a continuous progress. 3. the database of video recording is big and growing (more than 100 hours).
I'd like to use software for the analysis, coding the content, integrate the coding with the georefererentiation (i.e. recording place, cited place in the account, area of influence of the knowledge ecc.) and connect with a GIS for a visual representation. I try to explain: I.e. I have 50hours of interviews on traditional land use and ethnobotanic knowledge. Some of the information will be used for traditional land right, other for sustainable management, other for food security and food sovereignty ecc. One of the query could be: let me see all the sentences about the ethnobotanical knowledge (that will have some sub categories, food, medicinal, symbolic ecc. ) on a specific plant species, and which area is connected with the single account. Or may be all the accounts about a traditional use of a specific area.
I posted another similar question: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Suggestions_for_Integration_and_representation_of_intangible_heritage_information_in_GIS11
Dear Fabio,
for my experience you need a customized application for your data. I supported during the year the development of the JGrass (http://www.jgrass.org) open source GIS (now included in uDIg: http://udig.refractions.net) and I know that the companies that are now developing the software are certainly able to find the way to support your needs.
You can certainly inquiry [email protected] or [email protected] for a more detailed and technical answer.
I am also sure that the other softwares that hydrologis (one of the above companies) developed could be useful for your work (as BeeGIS, http://www.beegis.org, and Geopaparazzi, free on Android Market - http://code.google.com/p/geopaparazzi/).
Thank you Riccardo, is a good point to start from. I heard about JGrass, and I think the idea of Udig is very interesting. Thanks for the Android app links.
I will contact with the addresses you sent, the water is one of the interesting field of work, there are a lot of immaterial information and traditional knowledges that can be usefull for sustainable management.
I posted another question about integration of intangible heritage information at:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Suggestions_for_Integration_and_representation_of_intangible_heritage_information_in_GIS11
NOte: in the links you provided the final parenthesis was included in the link , if you can edit inserting a space before the parenthesis, the links will work well :-)
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