Re-use purposes of qualitative data downloaded from UK Data Service, 2002-2016 (Bishop and Kuula-Luumi, 2017)
This year we have run training courses for survey archives on how to ingest, curate and disseminate qualitative data as part of core archive business, I have delivered half-day workshops at the Cape Town DataFirst and Taiwan Survey Research Data Archive, which have been very well-received. A training session is also booked in for the new Indian Social Science Data Service in Gandhinagar. In my training I emphasise that it is only a small leap that professional archives need to take to embrace asia rcs data the flow of qualitative data, as the majority of the workflow activities are identical to those for quantitative data. Our research data management team also routinely include qualitative data sharing in our training, as is the case for out ICPSR Summer school course, and it always is gratefully received.
Three: Launch of our Special Issue of Sage Open: Digital Representations: Re-Using and Publishing Digital Qualitative Data
I am also absolutely delighted to have completed the Digital Futures work, a project for which I was PI, funded by the ESRC in 2012, that aimed to: build a platform for publishing, presenting and searching the content of qualitative data; enable citation of these data at the data level; and to work with scholars to reuse data in the system and its citation features.
Those of us who have worked as editors of journals will know that editing can take months and months of reminding and encouraging authors to finish; so I was relieved when our collection of papers as a special issue was finally published in the open journal, Sage Open, Digital Representations: Re-Using and Publishing Digital Qualitative Data. 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.