Candidates for Plugins / Extensions / Services

[jankapunkt]

Until we have a full features plugin architecture, we should consider some viable candidates, that we should consider when analyzing requirements and designing the plugin architecture + protocols.

How to add candidates?

• one comment per tool / project
• the comment should include: name, repo link (or webiste) and an argument why we should add this

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[jankapunkt]

name: QCA-AID
link: https://github.com/JustusHenke/QCA-AID
why: integration for various ai models

[jankapunkt]

name: lang extract
link: https://github.com/google/langextract
why: create structured data from sources that can be used for data management operations (search, manage, sort, categorize in sets, cases etc.)

[jankapunkt]

name: Gabriel
Link: https://github.com/openai/GABRIEL
why: analysis, mixed methods

[kadewe]

So far, these are all complex tools with a lot of different workflows and possible use cases. Therefore we probably need to have a multi-layer approach. At the ground level layer there is a tool like GABRIEL. On a second layer there should be a template based setup of typical workflows fitting into QDA. Therefore we would implement the integration of GABRIEL on a ground layer and then provide a GABRIEL-analysis "platform", just like we have a wordcloud analysis platform which does different types of wordclouds.

[jankapunkt]

The challenge is to make even the ground-layer tool-agnostic so we are never dependent on the merits of a third-party

[jankapunkt]

name: presidio
link: https://github.com/microsoft/presidio
why: lightweight (non-LLM) tool to anonymize texts, backed by Microsoft

[kadewe]

excellent find! I think this could be a first candidate for inclusion because we could use it preconfigured without a lot of interaction between tool and user?

[jankapunkt]

Yes, plus it should be operable without GPU but I need to check this first

[kadewe]

The people choosing the name definitely had a kind of special humor: QualiAnon is also a tool for anonymization https://www.qualiservice.org/de/helpdesk/webinar/tools.html - it has a doi https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2525 and a github repo https://github.com/pangaea-data-publisher/qualianon - it is a java app, so it should be rather straightforward to isolate the relevant logic and provide it as a service - imho a PERFECT student group or MA project!

[jankapunkt]

Yeah this is the QualiService tool. However, I wrote them to tell us their License as it is apparently not added to the repository but I got no answer yet.