TAMS Analyzer is an open source qualitative package for the analysis of textual themes. It can be used for transcribing digital media and for conducting discourse analysis in the social and cultural sciences.

TAMS = Text Analysis Mark-up System. This is a convention for analyzing themes in documents. These programs are designed for qualitative data analysis typically used in media studies, anthropology, education, and sociology.  

There are three versions of TAMS available. Most people should use either the GNUstep or the OSX TAMS Analyzer program.

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• Introduction to TAMS and TAMS Analyzer
  
• Command line tams: This is a generic C program good for analysis of text files. I have also included macros I wrote for Nisus Wordprocessor (old OS 9 and prior version only) to do coding for tams
• TAMS Analyzer for Cocoa: This is a general transcription, coding and analysis package for Macintosh OS X
  
• TAMS Analyzer for GNUstep: This is a port of the Cocoa program. At present it lacks the transcription tools of its Macintosh version, but contains all of the coding and analysis tools.
• One way to explore TAMS on GNUstep is with the GNUstep Live CD. To run tams do the following:
  1. Open a terminal
  2. Source GNUstep by typing ". /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh"
  3. Type "sudo open GTAMSAnalyzer.app"
  4. Beware of bugs (here are a few known ones):
  • Color picker barely works
  Code browser acts hysterical. Give lots of time to exit
  • Dot graph not really working, at least for mapping code sets

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TAMS Analyzer and TAMS are (c) 2002, 2003, 2004 by Matthew Weinstein and distributed under the GPL license.

 Portions of TAMS Analyzer are

 (c) Apple Computer (the code for the find/replace)
 AGRegex is (c) Aram Greenman
 PCRE Library is (c) Philip Hazel

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TAMS and TAMS Analyzer are creations of Matthew Weinstein. Write him at mweinste AT kent DOT edu.

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