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Update 1.2

This is the most important update since collections were introduced 🥳!

Changes

We've added and reworked the following features:

  • The selection explorer. We listened. The previous version wasn't very intuitive... Let us know what you think of this one!
  • Visual code tree export. We're introducing, sparingly, a new mind-map-style visualization to graphically represent your code trees and export them in high-quality visual formats (png and svg).
  • Update banner. When you log in to libreqda.org, you may have noticed a banner briefly describing this update's contents.
  • A bug report form. To make it easier to report technical issues.
  • An "anti-quantification" mode. If that matters to you, you can now hide frequency counters.

Local installation

We've also built local installers and published LibreQDA on PyPI and DockerHub. Visit the libreqda.org/downloads page to learn more.

Our usual answer to people who asked how to install LibreQDA on their Windows or Mac computer used to be:

Uh... run the source code from our Gitlab repository.

Why did we wait so long to do this? Partly due to limited resources... and partly because we worried it might encourage poor research data management practices:

  • Local installs falling far behind recent releases
  • Difficulty collaborating and cybersecurity risks (you have to set up your own server)
  • Not following the 3-2-1 rule. Three copies, two storage types and one off-site backup.

Our position on this has changed. It's important for less tech-savvy people analyzing highly sensitive data to be able to run LibreQDA easily in a self-contained way. To collaborate and keep your project data interoperable, we recommend using our online instance.

As soon as you start drafting your ethics certification application (if applicable), make sure to justify your choice to use LibreQDA on your own computer or on our online instance (libreqda.org). The latter option is preferable if you want to collaborate and keep your project data on a Canadian university server from Calcul Québec.

A few bugs were also fixed

  • Double underlining
  • The selection explorer is now resilient to page refreshes
  • Code exclusion now works as requested
  • Page crashes caused by kwargs