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ATLAS.ti 6 USER MANUAL 3 Contents About this Manual..................................................................................................................18 How to Use This Manual.................................................................................................................................................................18 Manual Conventions .......................................................................................................................................................................19 Introduction............................................................................................................................21 The VISE Principle...........................................................................................................................................................21 Visualization....................................................................................................................................................................................21 Integration.......................................................................................................................................................................................22 Serendipity.......................................................................................................................................................................................23 Exploration......................................................................................................................................................................................23 Areas of Application........................................................................................................................................................23 Teamwork Support .........................................................................................................................................................................24 Main Concepts and Features..................................................................................................25 The Hermeneutic Unit (HU)............................................................................................................................................25 Primary Documents (PD or PDoc)...................................................................................................................................26 Primary Document Families (Data Attributes)..................................................................................................................27 Quotations.....................................................................................................................................................................28 Quotations as Layers.......................................................................................................................................................................28 Types of Quotations........................................................................................................................................................................29 Text Quotations..........................................................................................................................................................................29 Graphic Quotations....................................................................................................................................................................29 PDF Quotations..........................................................................................................................................................................29 Audio and Video Quotations......................................................................................................................................................29 GoogleEarth Quotations.............................................................................................................................................................29 Codes.............................................................................................................................................................................30 Coding Objectives...........................................................................................................................................................................30 Text Search Tool..............................................................................................................................................................................30 Word Cruncher................................................................................................................................................................................30 Auto Coding Tool............................................................................................................................................................................31 Memos...........................................................................................................................................................................31 Families ..........................................................................................................................................................................31 Network Views...............................................................................................................................................................32 Nodes, Links and Relations..............................................................................................................................................................32 Network View Manager..................................................................................................................................................................32 Network Editor................................................................................................................................................................................32 Relation Editor.................................................................................................................................................................................33 Link Managers.................................................................................................................................................................................33 Analysis..........................................................................................................................................................................33 Query Tool......................................................................................................................................................................................33 Super Codes....................................................................................................................................................................................33 The Co-occurence Explorer..............................................................................................................................................................33 Codes-Primary Document-Table......................................................................................................................................................34 Team Tools.....................................................................................................................................................................34 User Administration.........................................................................................................................................................................34 Hermeneutic Unit Merger................................................................................................................................................................35 Coding Analyzer..............................................................................................................................................................................35 Export.............................................................................................................................................................................35 RTF..................................................................................................................................................................................................35