Introduction

This “Method of Sorting” Website is designed to be a freely-accessible resource for all who are interested in the Method of Sorting – whether that be described as:

• Card-sorting (apparently the preferred term for those involved in web-design)
• Pile-sorting ( the usual term used in Cognitive Anthropology)
• Free-sorting ( i.e. when subjects are free to choose the number of categories) or fixed sorting (when the number of categories is pre- determined.

… and also

• Q-sorting, when the number of categories and the distribution is pre-determined.

The site is intended to contain information about those working in, or using Sorting Methods

• sorting programs and their evaluation
• Bibliographies and on-going research projects

Our commitment

We are committed, as far as possible, to making resources freely available. We recognise that sometimes developers need to raise income to support their development of software, but our general ideology is that of free-ware and shareware.

Links

NewMDSX - multidimensional scaling software

Origins

The origins of this site lay with its initiators:

• Tony Coxon (University of Cardiff, who wrote the Sage QASS monograph, Sorting Data: Collection and Analysis, 07-127 (1999) and used the method in a number of research projects)
• David Bimler and John Kirkland, Massey University, New Zealand
• Joachim Harloff (Muenchen, Soft Use).