The data documents for two projects are combined into a new set of data documents, and the two index systems are also combined into one. A copy is also licensed by the Social Science Computing group. If the document is imported, it also contains the text of the document and annotations of it. By exploring and coding documents, you link them to categories you make in the Index System. The Index System is made up of nodes, which are containers for your thinking about the project.
Nodes store the index categories constructed by the user.
With the category is stored information such as the title and definition of the category, a memo of ideas about it and references to the parts of documents coded at the node. A project opens with Explorer windows on both these systems. By exploring nodes, and the coding at them, you link them to documents. The Search procedures allow you to search either document text of coding at nodes to discover and explore patterns and themes, and construct and test theories. User's Guide .