Making Qualitative Research More Transparent

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/v4jn4-t8991


 Announcing the Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) Initiative

We are excited to announce the first round of published projects from our Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) Initiative.

Making Qualitative Research More Transparent

Participant Protection, Informed Consent, and Data Sharing

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/bf3wg-8rt41

Recently, a researcher approached us at QDR to share her rich interview data.

Participant Protection, Informed Consent, and Data Sharing

NSF Wants You to Use Effective Data Practices

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/m7zng-gvs37

QDR Can Help In a recent “Dear Colleague Letter”, the National Science Foundation (NSF) encourages researchers to adopt best practices in managing research data.

NSF Wants You to Use Effective Data Practices

QDR Creates New Course on Data Management for CITI

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/5znft-x4j11

We’re pleased to announce that QDR's Diana Kapiszewski and Dessi Kirilova have created a new three-module course on “Data Management for Social-Behavioral-Educational (SBE) Research,” which was just released as a self-guided option via Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program). Providing fresh insights on both

QDR Creates New Course on Data Management for CITI

Teaching with Qualitative Data: An Example

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/msdgj-6yf95

Sharing qualitative data produces many benefits: shared data can contribute to making the research product in which they were originally deployed more easily understandable and interpretable, they can be analyzed by other researchers, and they can be used for pedagogical purposes.

Teaching with Qualitative Data: An Example

Searching and Browsing QDR with Facets DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/w4xgx-vbc07

 To mark this year’s Love Data Week, the QDR team is offering a set of three brief blog entries highlighting new features for our users and tips on how to make the most of the repository’s offerings. This is the second blog post.

Finding the right materials in QDR's growing catalog is now even faster and more precise.

Searching and Browsing QDR with Facets

Utilizing Secondary Qualitative Data

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/rsn20-x8v39


 Guest post by Marina Mohd Hamdan, West Virginia University

Being a first-year graduate student starting at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was quite a challenge, especially in gathering data and conducting fieldwork.

Utilizing Secondary Qualitative Data

QDR is Offering Complimentary Curation and Storage for COVID-19 Related Data

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/mwkxw-gzz25

We have received a significant number of projects related to the COVID-19 pandemic over the last 2 1/2 years.

QDR is Offering Complimentary Curation and Storage for COVID-19 Related Data

PRIM&amp;R and QDR help IRB professionals discuss data sharing in the social, behavioral and economic sciences

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/77mnj-0bj16

Since QDR’s founding in 2014, we have gained an increasing appreciation for the power and complexity of the academic  “ecosystem” comprising the various institutions that create and disseminate knowledge.

PRIM&amp;R and QDR help IRB professionals discuss data sharing in the social, behavioral and economic sciences

Call for Submissions to the Inaugural Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/kka53-cwg19

Data Management Plans (DMPs) play an integral role in ensuring that data are collected, organized, stored, and shared responsibly. Qualitative researchers writing such plans frequently ask for examples of excellent DMPs for qualitative research.

Call for Submissions to the Inaugural Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition

Improving QDR's Dataverse for Qualitative Data

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/5q4p1-ew181

When QDR adopted the Dataverse platform in early 2017, one of our goals was to improve the software, development primarily with quantitative data in mind, for qualitative data and the researchers using it. A little more than one year into using Dataverse software at QDR, we have made significant strides in this direction.

Improving QDR's Dataverse for Qualitative Data

DMP Competition Winners: DMPs so good they go to 11

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/80jej-7cq96

Last December we announced the inaugural

 
 Qualitative Data Management Plan (DMP) Competition,
 

sponsored jointly by The Qualitative Data Repository, Princeton Research Data Service, and the DMPTool.

DMP Competition Winners: DMPs so good they go to 11

archivr - Loving Data from Web Research

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/5h25x-w2r21

Welcome to

 Love Data Week

. Every year, research data professionals from libraries, data repositories, and other organizations celebrate great ways to use data and best practices in taking care of research data. You can find lots of us tweeting using #LoveData20 or #LoveDataWeek.

archivr - Loving Data from Web Research

Introducing the New QDR Site

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/m9294-90d85

Over the last year, QDR has been working hard to update both its infrastructure and repository catalog. We are proud to report a significant milestone in this ongoing project, the switching of all of our systems over to a new site that incorporates much of this considerable effort.

Qualitative Data Repository teams with Hypothesis to develop Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)

How QDR Meets Federal Criteria for Data Repositories

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/6z0td-17604

Two US federal government agencies recently published exciting, forward-looking guidance on data sharing for researchers receiving US federal funding.

How QDR Meets Federal Criteria for Data Repositories

Webinar on Securely Managing Qualitative Data

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/jp90n-z3697

QDR staff has long taught data management with a focus on qualitative data – be it as a IASSIST workshop or as a module of the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), which was co-taught with Louise Corti of UK Data.

Webinar on Securely Managing Qualitative Data

Ode to Data

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/gy683-42362

Meet QDR's fuzzy and beautiful mascot, Data the capybara: Data (unsurprisingly given her name) got so inspired by #lovedata18 that she composed a whole ode for the occasion and asked us to share it, which we are all too happy to do: Ode to Data Transcripts and field notes and speeches and maps, Minutes, memoranda, and records and stats, Images, documents, drawings

Ode to Data

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Tom Carsey: Remembering a Friend

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/xsryv-jgj83

QDR was very saddened to learn that, after a valiant struggle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Tom Carsey passed away on February 21, 2018.

Tom Carsey: Remembering a Friend

Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/1z5vc-nq568


 Authors and Reviewers Gear up for November Workshop

Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) is a new approach to increasing the openness of qualitative and multi-method research across academic disciplines. In order to develop and promulgate the approach, QDR works with and supports scholars who wish to employ ATI.

Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)

New Metadata Helps Identify Data Authors and Institutions DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/vavg2-54v64

 To mark this year’s Love Data Week, the QDR team is offering a set of three brief blog entries highlighting new features for our users and tips on how to make the most of the repository’s offerings.

New Metadata Helps Identify Data Authors and Institutions

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Engaging Complexity

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/fk0dj-ckx57

Scenarios for the Responsible Sharing of Sensitive Research Data

 By Colin Elman and Diana Kapiszewski

On May 21, QDR held a workshop entitled, “The Impact of Human Subjects Guidance and Informed Consent Scripts on Data Sharing and Research Transparency.” The workshop was the third in the “Protecting People, Sharing Data” series, which comprises one

Engaging Complexity

JSTOR and QDR Partner in Organizing Data Rescue Event

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/m5fmn-2f721


 Esther Jackson, The New York Botanical Garden


 Sebastian Karcher, Qualitative Data Repository


 What Is Data Rescue?

The US government and its agencies collect economic and demographic data; data on soil, plants, and livestock; data on climate and astronomy, and much more.

JSTOR and QDR Partner in Organizing Data Rescue Event

Workshop: CAQDAS Projects and Digital Repositories

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/h0tp9-13g19

On October 28, 2016, a group of 19 developers, researchers, and repository specialists met at Syracuse University’s Lubin House in New York City to discuss “CAQDAS Projects and Digital Repositories’ Best Practices,” a one-day workshop organized by the Qualitative Data Repository.

Workshop: CAQDAS Projects and Digital Repositories

Webinar: A Tale of Two Data Projects

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/24tgn-56d24


 Data Curation at the Qualitative Data Repository

On November 7, Sebastian Karcher, QDR's associate director, and Dessi Kirilova, our curation specialist, hosted a webinar providing deep insights into QDR's curation process based on two data projects.

Webinar: A Tale of Two Data Projects

Expanding Understandings of Qualitative Data Analysis with Shared Data

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/6h126-15k51


 This is a guest post by Jessica Nina Lester (Indiana University), Noah Goodman (Education Development Center's Center for Children &amp; Technology), &amp;

Expanding Understandings of Qualitative Data Analysis with Shared Data

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Understanding the User Experience: Lessons from an Active Citation Piloteer

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/9tp71-zmh06


 Guest post by Veronica Herrera, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.

In the fall of 2013, I participated in a pilot program for the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University on “active citation” (AC). I was actually producing the revise-and-resubmit

Understanding the User Experience: Lessons from an Active Citation Piloteer

Teaching Qualitative Data Management: Lessons Learned

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/3pxva-3ev22

We have always envisioned QDR as more than a place to deposit (qualitative) data. QDR is also a resource for qualitative and multi-method social scientists working with data. As part of this vision, we regularly teach courses on data management.

Teaching Qualitative Data Management: Lessons Learned

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Falling In with the Right Crowd: Qualitative Data at IASSIST

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/bf1ed-75j92


 by Dessi Kirilova, QDR Curation Specalist

As relative newcomers to the circles of data professionals, we at QDR have found the annual gathering of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) to be a great event to attend.

Falling In with the Right Crowd: Qualitative Data at IASSIST

QDR Co-Directors Guest Blog on AJPS Site

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 https://doi.org/10.59350/w0b4q-wyf35

“QDR is pleased to have been selected by

 The American Journal of Political Science

(AJPS) to help instantiate part of its revised data access and replication policy.”  Read the full post by Colin Elman and Diana Kapiszewski on the AJPS site.

QDR Blog