Transforming legacy Research Software into Free Software: Early impressions from Participant Observation

Cortext was launched in 2008 by researchers in Science and Technology Studies. It provides computational methods for document analysis in the humanities and social sciences, serving over a thousand users across 50 countries each year, with roughly 44,000 analyses, most of which are carried out through the Cortext Manager application. This package gathers the raw data from the analysis and metric collection before and after the refactoring of the Corpus Explorer method of the Cortext platform. This method is responsible for filtering database tables selected by users and generating visualizations of the filtered content.