Notebook overview
The Notebook allows you to manage for language and cultural field work. However, you can use it for any number of other data collection tasks.
As a fieldnotes tool, it facilitates documenting, categorizing, retrieving, analyzing, and summarizing conclusions about your fieldnotes. You can use it to gain insights from your anthropological fieldnotes for the following purposes:
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to live and work appropriately in a new cultural community
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to help with literacy and educational development by documenting language attitudes, social patterns, and annual cycles of community
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to help with translation by documenting cultural concepts and terminology
This kind of cultural research is commonly referred to as ethnography. Its goals are to describe behavior patterns, social organization, community values, the interaction between people and their environment, and demographics.
Fieldnotes data consists of records that document events you witness or hear about, and your analysis of such events. The combination of proper techniques and software technology allows you to do more consistent, reliable, and manageable data collection.
The Help books for the Notebook are the following:
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Notebook replaces the FieldWorks Data Notebook application after FieldWorks version 6.
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You can import Standard Format anthropology data.