Porphyry and LaSuli are used on Cassandre and Argos for qualitative text analysis by:

• managers: Housewife return, Corporate buyers;
• political scientists: Ways of Knowing;
• linguists: Linguistic heterogenity;
• sociologists: Civil Society, Spirit of the temporary work.

Contents 1 "Coding" 1.1 Bottom-up coding 1.2 Top-down coding 2 Registering patterns 3 Comparing viewpoints 4 And then?

"Coding"

• Install Firefox (version 3.5 or more)
• Install LaSuli
• Install "Toggle Word Wrap" (if you plan to work with plain texts)

Bottom-up coding

• In Firefox, open the web page you want to analyze (HTML or plain text). In the menu, choose Display > Side panel > LaSuli.

• If the page is plain text and continues on the right side, choose Display > Word Wrap in the menu.

• Add attributes to the page (e.g. "name", "author", "date"...).

• Click on the "+" tab, type the name of your analysis and click on the "create" button.

• Select a fragment in the text. Right-click, choose Categorize with LaSuli > '...'. For other fragments, you will be able to create an other category or use the same category.

• Type the name of categories.

• Once you have several categories, launch Porphyry on our sandbox server. In the menu, choose Viewpoint > Open.... Accept the given service. Choose "guest". Choose the analysis you did earlier. In the menu, choose Viewpoint > Edit... and your viewpoint.

• Control-click (or command-click on Mac) the topics you want to gather and choose Viewpoint > Create a topic > Generic in the menu. Type the name of this topic.

Top-down coding

• Launch Porphyry on our sandbox server.

• In the menu, choose Analyst > Create.... Accept the given service. Type "guest" as login and full name.

• In the menu, choose Viewpoint > Create.... Accept the given service. Choose "guest". Type a name for your analysis.

• In the menu, choose Viewpoint > Edit... and your viewpoint.

• For every upper topic you want, choose Viewpoint > Create a topic > Isolated and type its name.

• For every subtopic you want, select the parent, choose Viewpoint > Create a topic > Specific and type its name.

• In Firefox, open the web page you want to analyze (HTML or plain text). In the menu, choose Display > Side panel > LaSuli.

• If the page is plain text and continues on the right side, choose Display > Word Wrap in the menu.

• Add attributes to the page (e.g. "name", "author", "date"...).

• Click on the "+" tab and choose the viewpoint you created before in Porphyry.

• Select a fragment in the text. Right-click, choose Categorize with LaSuli and the appropriate category.

Registering patterns

TODO

Comparing viewpoints

TODO

And then?

If you are ready to work with our tools, you can:

• either ask your system administrator to install Argos (for text "coding") or Cassandre (for text patterns registering) on a server computer ,
• or contact Christophe Lejeune and Aurélien Bénel and present yourself and your research topics in order to use our community servers.