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This chapter introduces the data landscape that enables access to data resources for researching in the field of epidemiology. The chapter covers a general introduction to methods, standards and infrastructures for curating, sharing and reusing data of interest to health and epidemiology researchers. By making data available and accessible for reus...
Robust and standardised licensing and governance frameworks are used to ensure that datasets intended for research use are made available under the terms and conditions specified by a data owner.
The UK Data Service makes use of the Five Safes framework to operate its 3-tier data access policy, and ensuring that data classified as personal data ca...
Ο στόχος της έκθεσης είναι η διερεύνηση της τρέχουσας κατάστασης των υπηρεσιών αρχειοθέτησης δεδομένων (π.χ. διαθέσιμα δεδομένα, πάροχοι δεδομένων κ.λπ.), καθώς και οι ανάγκες των τρεχουσών και μελλοντικών ερευνητών στα πεδία των «ακαδημαϊκών» δεδομένων, της υγείας, των στατιστικών υπηρεσιών και της ιστορίας. Εξετάζονται επίσης οι τρέχουσες και δυν...
Cambridge Core - General - Delivering Research Data Management Services - edited by Graham Pryor
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Data management has been succinctly defined by the editor of this volume in an earlier work as ‘an active process by which digital resources remain discoverable, accessible and intelligible over the longer term’ (Pryor, 2012, vii). Research Data Management (RDM) to the present authors is a subtly different process, which can be seen as...
Sharing and publishing social science research data have a long history in the UK, through long-standing agreements with government agencies for sharing survey data and the data policy, infrastructure, and data services supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. The UK Data Service and its predecessors developed data management, documen...
A roundtable discussion at the Open in Practice conference.
In the 1990s, the term “online” research emerged as a new and vibrant suite of methods, focused on exploitation of sources not collected by traditional social science methods. Today, at least one part of the research life cycle is likely to be carried out “online,” from data collection through to publishing. In this article, we seek to understand e...
This collection of papers comprises five contributions with a social science or social historical perspective that present the current state of the art in the field of re-using and publishing digital qualitative data. The articles address the use of digital sources in qualitative research in both research and teaching, charting types of use over th...
This study, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, investigates researchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards open research, examining the sharing and reuse of research data, code, and open access publications, in order to identify practical actions the Wellcome Trust can take to remove or mitigate barriers and maximise the opportunities for practising...
Researchers’ responsibilities towards their research data are changing across all domains of social scientific endeavour. Government, funders and publishers expect greater transparency of, open access to, and re-use of research data, and fears over data loss call for more robust information security practices. Researchers must develop, enhance and...
This qualitative data collection comprises 453 life-story interviews originally collected as part of the study The Edwardians: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918. The interviews were undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s and formed the basis of the first national oral history project in the United Kingdom.
Paul Thompson first becam...
Recent developments in archiving have built on a 50 year foundation of sharing social survey data and are enabling the take-up of data curation practices on a wider scale. Advances in data archiving have been driven by the quest for comparable and harmonised data sources and mandates from sponsors of research to make data accessible – to provide bo...
This article discusses how the idea of higher education students as producers of knowledge rather than consumers can be operationalised by means of student research projects, in which processes of research archiving and analysis are enabled through the use of semantic technologies. It discusses how existing digital repository frameworks can be exte...
Archived qualitative data are a rich and unique, yet too often unexploited, source of research material. They offer information that can be reanalysed, reworked, and compared with contemporary data. In time, too, archived research materials can prove to be a significant part of our cultural heritage and become resources for historical as well as co...
In this article I set about describing current practices in archiving and reusing qualitative data. I discuss where can you find archived sources of qualitative data, and discuss some of the debates surrounding methodological, ethical and theoretical considerations relating to re-using data. I then address more pragmatic issues involved acquiring,...
The use of archival materials as a point of departure when designing and launching social research takes for granted that a culture of archiving (for sharing and re-use) has rooted time ago in our complex societies. This mentality and research practice first flourished and is fairly well installed in the case of statistics, surveys and certain othe...
This article seeks to address the theme of the comparability of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) packages through comparing current software exchangeability and portability. Our perspective is from a data sharing and archiving perspective and the need for open data exchange standards for qualitative data which will enable longer...
4th International Conference on Open Repositories This presentation was part of the session : Fedora User Group Presentations Date: 2009-05-20 01:30 PM – 03:00 PM The Semantic Web and associated Semantic Technologies (standards, services, tools, triplestores, reasoners and visualisers) have, it has been argued, the potential to support and enhance...
“Qualitative data” are the central issue of this article. Qualitative data are a particular category of data within the social
sciences, where data have been predominantly of a quantitative nature. Qualitative data could enrich social science research
in many ways. The re-use of this particular type of data is however a new challenge for social sci...
In this paper, we present the results of an investigation into methodologies and technical solutions for exposing the structured metadata contained within digital qualitative data, to make them more shareable and exploitable. In particular, we develop mechanisms for using Information Extraction (IE) technology to provide user-friendly tools for sem...
Qualitative Archiving and Data Sharing: Extending the Reach and Impact of Qualitative Data
Qualitative Archiving and Data Sharing: Extending the Reach and Impact of Qualitative Data
Survey Data in Teaching Project (SDiT): Enhancing Critical Thinking and Data Literacy
Growing privacy and security concerns mean there is an increasing need for data to be anonymized before being publically released. We present a module for anonymizing references implemented as part of the SQUAD tools for specifying and testing non-proprietary means of storing and marking-up data using universal (XML) standards and technologies. The...
In considering "users" of social science data archives, the temptation is to count only those who are conducting secondary analysis of data. However, the definition of "users" can be widened to include any groups and individuals who have regular or systematic contact with a data archiving and dissemination service. In this paper I identify six dist...
Qualidata was launched in 1994 as a proactive service for the location, documentation and preservation of qualitative social science research data. Over the course of its relatively short history, Qualidata has succeeded in gaining acceptance for the deposit and re-use of qualitative data material amongst the academic community. Initially concentra...
Unlike for quantitative approaches, the published literature on secondary analysis of qualitative data is sparse. Among qualitative researchers there is neither a pervasive culture that exists to encourage the secondary analysis of data nor is there an extensive body of published sources that can help guide or instruct a researcher wishing to under...
Archived qualitative data are a rich and unique yet often unexploited source of research material that can be reanalysed, reworked, and compared with contemporary data. This issue aims to debate the methodological, ethical and theoretical considerations relating to the secondary analysis of qualitative data and to provide exemplars of applications...
This report was prepared by one of the organizers of this conference and the head of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) Qualidata service. The conference was in honour of Colin Bell and brought together several of his former colleagues and students, and covered past, present and future topics of community studies.
he British Crime Survey, 2000: X4L SDiT Teaching Dataset (BCS) is a stripped-down version of the full BCS 2000 study held as study number 4463 at the UK Data Archive. The dataset is drawn from the 'non-victim' BCS data and contains just 33 variables, some broadbanded to protect respondent confidentiality. The dataset forms part of a wider SDiT proj...
The paper gives a brief overview of the British Household Panel Study and some key aspects of its design. A short discussion of some of the analytic advantages of panel data is complemented by three examples of research issues where panel data can assist in the understanding of micro-social change. The remainder of the paper is concerned with three...
The article provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges faced by a national qualitative data service provider, and specifically, how these relate to broader infrastructural requirements, based mainly on the case of the UK. Tracing the history of the UK service Qualidata since 1994 makes it possible to pinpoint how major cultural and fu...
Résumé Le présent article donne une vue générale des possibilités qui se présentent et des problèmes qui se posent à un prestataire national de services de données qualitatives, et plus particulièrement de la manière dont ces possibilités et problèmes sont liés à l’accroissement des impératifs en matière d’infrastructure, en se basant essentielleme...
Symposium pour la célébration de la sociologie classique - Les pionniers de la recherche britannique qualitative. Rapport de la conférence, Symposium on Celebrating Classic Sociology: Pioneers of British Qualitative Research, qui a eu lieu les 5-6 juillet 2001 à l'université d'Essex. Le programme complet y figure ainsi que les résumés disponibles.
In this paper, I hope to offer a global picture of what is happening in the world of qualitative data archiving. Qualidata is in a strong position to be able to offer this insight as it was the world's first initiative to pioneer preservation of qualitative social science data on a national scale. This was facilitated by the Economic and Social Sci...
This paper highlights the main issues concerned with preserving fieldwork "contracts", such as informed consent agreements, as they relate to the conduct of research and the archiving of qualitative data. We pay particular attention to the techniques and efficacy of anonymisation and, outline methods of gate-keeping for access to data. Our discussi...
Text, Sound and Videotape: The Future of Qualitative Data in the Global Network
Research Resource: The aims of the QUALIDATA Resource Centre located in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex are: locating, assessing and documenting qualitative data and arranging for their deposit in suitable public archive repositories; disseminating information about such data; and raising archival consciousness among the soci...
Research Resource: The aims of the QUALIDATA Resource Centre located in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex are: locating, assessing and documenting qualitative data and arranging for their deposit in suitable public archive repositories; disseminating information about such data; and raising archival consciousness among the soci...
Micro-social change in Britain originally written in 1989, is an historical document providing an overview of the role and objectives of the Centre and an outline of its intended work in the design, collection and analysis of the British Household Panel Study. A long postscript is provided to furnish additional information on the development of the...
