Harmony supports the following file types:
If you want to upload multiple questionnaires in a single file, you can use Excel format and put them in separate tabs.
In all cases we recommend clearly supplying question numbers, question texts, and removing extraneous information such as copyright disclaimers for best results.
If you are having trouble parsing a document in Harmony, you can raise an issue or try our troubleshooting tips.
Harmony is an open source tool for social science research.
[Beta mode: we are currently testing this extension] We have developed a browser extension for Harmony called “Send to Harmony” which lets you send selected text to Harmony with a right-click. For PDFs, use the popup to paste your selected text. Send to Harmony enables users to send selected text to the Harmony Data Harmonization (https://harmonydata.ac.uk/) platform for analysis. This plugin provides a right-click or context menu item which allows users to easily bring text from into their harmonisations, making it easier to compare and analyze different measurement scales across research studies.
We have a number of exciting updates to Harmony including: some improvements to the R library which have been asked for by researchers around the world who have been using Harmony on studies in lots of different topics as well as making our own fine tuned large language model available in the web UI, which is José’s winning model from the DOXA challenge which ended on 10 January 2025. Harmony has its own Large Language Model!
