<s>
Cassandre	O
is	O
a	O
free	O
open	O
source	O
software	O
for	O
computer	B-Application
assisted	I-Application
qualitative	I-Application
data	I-Application
analysis	I-Application
and	O
interpretation	O
in	O
humanities	O
and	O
social	O
sciences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
it	O
refers	O
,	O
like	O
other	O
CAQDAS-software	O
,	O
to	O
Grounded	O
Theory	O
Method	O
,	O
it	O
also	O
allows	O
to	O
conduct	O
discourse	O
analysis	O
or	O
quantitative	O
content	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
is	O
designed	O
as	O
a	O
server	B-Application
to	O
support	O
collaborative	O
work	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
researchers	O
also	O
use	O
it	O
in	O
computer	B-General_Concept
science	I-General_Concept
,	O
namely	O
in	O
knowledge	O
management	O
,	O
design	O
,	O
human-computer	O
interaction	O
and	O
topic	B-Application
mapping	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
so-called	O
KWALON	O
experiment	O
,	O
representatives	O
of	O
selected	O
CAQDAS-Software	O
were	O
invited	O
to	O
analyze	O
a	O
dataset	O
composed	O
of	O
newspapers	O
articles	O
and	O
videos	O
related	O
to	O
the	O
2008	O
financial	O
crisis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
packages	O
Atlas.ti	B-Application
,	O
MAXQDA	B-Operating_System
,	O
NVivo	B-Application
,	O
Transana	B-Language
and	O
Cassandre	O
were	O
taking	O
part	O
in	O
the	O
experiment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Christophe	O
Lejeune	O
created	O
Cassandre	O
's	O
first	O
version	O
in	O
2006	O
after	O
his	O
post-doctoral	O
stay	O
in	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Technology	O
of	O
Troyes	O
where	O
he	O
involved	O
in	O
the	O
Social	B-General_Concept
Semantic	I-General_Concept
Web	I-General_Concept
team	O
and	O
participated	O
the	O
definition	O
of	O
the	O
Hypertopic	O
protocol	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
server	B-Application
,	O
Cassandre	O
was	O
storing	O
texts	O
and	O
provided	O
a	O
semi-automated	O
coding	O
feature	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rather	O
than	O
highlighting	O
excerpts	O
(	O
like	O
in	O
most	O
of	O
QDA	B-Application
software	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
user	O
highlights	O
keywords	O
or	O
idioms	O
(	O
markers	O
)	O
that	O
instantly	O
match	O
several	O
excerpts	O
of	O
material	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Markers	O
and	O
registers	O
are	O
created	O
,	O
managed	O
and	O
browsed	O
with	O
Porphyry	O
's	O
Portfolio	O
,	O
a	O
Hypertopic	O
client	B-Protocol
developed	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
by	O
Aurélien	O
Bénel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cassandre	O
also	O
provided	O
meta-data	O
and	O
some	O
lexical	O
analysis	O
(	O
words	O
counts	O
)	O
accessible	O
through	O
the	O
Porphyry	O
sidebar	O
,	O
a	O
Firefox	B-Operating_System
add-on	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
designed	O
as	O
PHP/SQL	O
server	B-Application
(	O
first	O
MySQL	B-Application
then	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Cassandre	O
was	O
refactored	O
as	O
a	O
CouchDB	B-Application
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Coding	O
was	O
integrated	O
to	O
the	O
browser	O
thanks	O
to	O
a	O
Firefox	B-Operating_System
add-on	I-Operating_System
,	O
LaSuli	O
,	O
developed	O
by	O
Chao	O
Zhou	O
.	O
</s>
