Introduction to the Reproducible Open Coding Kit (ROCK)

The Reproducible Open Coding Kit (ROCK) was developed to facilitate reproducible and open coding, specifically geared towards qualitative research methods. Although it is a general-purpose toolkit, three specific applications have been implemented: an interface to the rENA package that implements Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA); means to process notes from Cognitive Interviews (CIs); and means to work with a decentralized construct taxonomy (DCT). In this introduction, first a general overview of the logic behind ROCK will be given, after which each of those three use cases will be discussed.