Qualitative Data Processing
Qualitative Data Guidelines and Support Materials
Qualitative data deposits require that the data owners process and curate their data as much as possible prior to deposit with ADA. The qualitative research process is not easily automated so requires a higher level of knowledge specific to the data and research process of the deposited materials. Qualitative data is not appropriate for ADA's more automated processing scripts that are suitable for quantitative data processing.
Please see an example of qualitative data published with ADA, in collaboration with a research team from University of Melbourne Studies of Childhood Education & Youth (SOCEY) Dataverse https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataverse/SOCEY. This collaboration also produced a discussion paper which provides practical support in preparing qualitative data for reuse. See Studies of Childhood, Education & Youth https://www.socey.net/repository/discussion-paper/.
Resources
Archives
Research and Discussion Papers
- 2000 Progress and Problems of Preserving and Providing Access to Qualitative Data for Social Research—The International Picture of an Emerging Culture. Corti, Louise
- 2004 - Whose Data are They Anyway?: Practical, Legal and Ethical Issues in Archiving Qualitative Research Data Odette Parry, Natasha S. Mauthner
- 2009 seminar at the University of Melbourne, run by Natasha Mauthner raising dilemmas to do with ethics, consent and context in qualitative data reuse.
- 2009 - Qualitative Researchers’ Understandings of Their Practice and the Implications for Data Archiving and Sharing Alex Broom, Lynda Cheshire, Michael Emmison
- 2018 20 years of archiving and sharing qualitative data in the UK Corti, Louise
- 2020 ‘Yes, I Can!’ adult literacy campaign
- This qualitative data deposited with ADA relied on summarising some of the transcripts due to the high change of participant identification due to the study topic area.
- 2020 ADA Dataverse: Studies of Childhood Education & Youth (SOCEY)
- SOCEY - Our discussion paper, Doing Research Differently: Archiving & Sharing Qualitative Data in Studies of Childhood, Education and Youth, explores directions and dilemmas in the archiving and sharing of qualitative research, taking a specific focus on studies of childhood, education and youth, predominantly from across the social sciences (McLeod, O’Connor & Davis).
- 2023 Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) 2023 - "Creating a Qualitative Data Sharing Future"
- A panel session run by ADA and qualitative researchers to bring together qualitative data users, producers, and archivists to discuss experiences and to facilitate discussion where participants are encouraged to share their thoughts on the future of archiving and re-using qualitative data, and how these practices might change the future of qualitative research practices.
- 2024 Archiving and sharing qualitative data: implications for data management platforms. This report explores the implications of the CADRE platform (ARDC) for qualitative data (McLeod, O’Connor & Davis).
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