QDR creates in-depth guidance on a wide range of topics to support your work.
Guidance
QDR offers a series of web pages addressing key topics in managing research data from data management planning to formatting and depositing data, all with a focus on the needs of qualitative researchers.
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There are important questions related to interacting with human participants that should be considered from the early planning stages of a research project. QDR provides guidance for safely and ethically collecting – and potentially sharing – information from human participants.
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When using data published on QDR, please ensure that you give proper credit by using an appropriate citation.
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QDR provides resource for teaching data management as well as for teaching using data from our repository
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A regularly updated list of conferences and workshops related to qualitative data and qualitative research methods
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QDR provides a growing list of template to help researchers at various stages of their research, including suggested informed consent, correspondence templates, and DMP language.
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A data management plan (DMP) outlines the steps you will take and the practices in which you will engage – on an ongoing basis – to successfully manage your data as you conduct your research.
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QDR has assembled a checklist outlining the issues you should address in your Data Management Plan (DMP).
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The formats in which data are created and stored determine their legal and technical fit for sharing in QDR and for the longevity of access to them.
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Research data that are well-organized and well-documented when they are shared are easier for other scholars to interpret, and more readily employed for secondary research, for evaluating published research with which the data are associated, and for pedagogical purposes.
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QDR can help you with the data management and sharing component of your NIH grant proposal.
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It is your ethical and legal responsibility as a researcher to demonstrate that your work does not create undue harm for the people whom you involve in it, or that any harm the research may cause is balanced by the potential social benefits of the research.
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Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) play a critical role in the practical application of ethical research principles. The key responsibility of IRBs is to assure that investigators whose research involves human participants follow appropriate steps to protect project participants’ rights and welfare.
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Informed consent is crucial for conducting ethical research. Special considerations for such consent apply when researchers plan to later share data with others.
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When private/sensitive identifying information is collected as part of the research process and human participants request confidentiality, you may need to de-identify the data before sharing them with other scholars.
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Placing appropriate conditions on the availability of some of the data provided to you by human participants when you share these data can help protect project participants’ private/sensitive information.
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A non-exhaustive list of projects we want to highlight as being particularly well-suited for secondary uses by undergraduate and graduate students.
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Deposit Process
QDR categorizes data projects into four different types: Thematic, supplemental, pedagogical, and ATI data project.
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Qualitative data can take many different forms. This is a non-exhaustive list of the types of materials that can make up a qualitative data project.
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How do you deposit data with QDR? Learn about the steps of a data deposit, deposit fees and waivers, and typically turnaround times.
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Research
A figure demonstrating Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)
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The WSRD project seeks to develop a multi-stakeholder epistemic community, drawing representatives from various institutions in the American academic ecosystem into sustained dialogue about how to protect human participants while pursuing research openness.
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A list of publications by QDR personnel that relate directly to our work.
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A short discussion of the intellectual origins and underpinnings of Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI).
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A list of published articles and papers using Annotation for Transparent Inquiry that can serve as models for researchers interested in the approach
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This page offers instructions for preparing and depositing an “Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) Project” accompanying a digital manuscript.
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Detailed instructions for using Anno-REP, a tool to Restructure, Edit, and Publish Annotations
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Policies
QDR curates, preserves, and publishes empirical data associated with qualitative or multi-method research in the social sciences and cognate disciplines.
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Curation involves a series of steps that make data easily findable and maximize their potential for use and re-use. QDR offers multiple types of services related to curation, including assistance to researchers before and after they deposit data.
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The licenses that QDR uses, and agreements that users who deposit and download data sign, are intended to maximize the use and re-use of the data while protecting human participants and complying with legal requirements.
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The purpose of this policy is to publicly establish procedures, timelines, and contacts for the response of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) to data breaches. This policy is publicly available on QDR’s website and may be updated as necessary.
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QDR aims to preserve data indefinitely and will deaccession data only under rare, specific circumstances.
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QDR classifies data as sensitive based on the degree to which it they contain personally identifiable information and the degree of harm to which research participants could be exposed if the data were matched to them.
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This digital preservation policy describes the technological and institutional steps that QDR takes to ensure long-term preservation of the data it holds.
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Two advisory boards offer guidance to and assist QDR with the development and administration of the repository.
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The mapping of QDR's metadata fields to DDI 2.5 and DataCite 3.1
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