In March 2019, the [[Rotterdam Exchange Format Initiative]] (REFI) launched a new open exchange standard for qualitative data called QDA-XML.<ref>{{citeCite journal |last=Evers |first=Jeanine |date=May 2020 web|title=LaunchWhat –is Codebookthe REFI-QDA Standard: Experimenting With the Transfer of Analyzed Research Projects Between QDA Software Exchange|url=https://www.qdasoftwarequalitative-research.orgnet/launch-the-codebook-exchangeindex.php/fqs/article/download/3439/4598?inline=1 |accessdatejournal=19Forum: MarchQualitative 2019Social Research (FQS) |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=22}}</ref> The aim is to allow users to bring coded qualitative data from one software package to another. Initially support was included in [[Atlas.ti]], [[QDA Miner]], [[Quirkos]] and [[Transana]], and is now implemented in [[Dedoose]], [[MAXQDA]], [[NVivo]] and [[QualCoder]] as well, while [[f4analyse]] only to Export .<ref>{{cite web|title=Products – Project Exchange|url=https://www.qdasoftware.org/products-project-exchange/|accessdate=7 October 2022}}</ref> Although this was not the first standard to be proposed, it was the first to be implemented by more than one software package, and came as the result of a collaboration between vendors and community representatives from the research community. Previously there was very little capability to bring data in from other software packages.
