| This workshop will provide
an overview of the current issues and dilemmas associated
with sharing, reusing and representing various forms of qualitative
digital data. Drives by the ESRC and Economic and Social Data
Service towards effectively storing qualitative data for independent
re-use and re-purposing are now coming to the fore. Increasingly
doctoral students and researchers are being encouraged to
be mindful of the ‘future’ uses of their data
following primary analysis. The workshop aims to engage participants
with these initiatives through two substantive streams:
i) Current Issues in Qualitative Data Sharing, Reuse
and Representation.
This stream will introduce participants to the key debates
about sharing, representing and reusing digital multi-media
qualitative data. Key questions to be considered include:
• Why store and share qualitative data?
• What are the methodological, ethical and technical
implications of long-term
multi-media qualitative data storage, preservation and re-use?
• What preparations need to be made before storing and
sharing multi-media
data?
• What issues surround the representation of stored
multi-media qualitative
data?
• What would an independent researcher need to know
about the methodological
context of a data-set they intend to re-use?
• What role does eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) play
in storing and reusing
multi-media qualitative data?
ii) “Building a Trail of Evidence”: Methodological
Context and Qualitative Data Storage and Reuse.
The second stream will focus on context: how can you best
provide contextual information to allow subsequent re-use
of your data? And what are the dilemmas of doing so? It will
introduce participants to a hypermedia methodological ‘trail’
that aims to provide a suitable context to data collected
in a qualitative research project. The original project focused
upon a science discovery centre and utilised various methods
of multi-media data collection (digital audio, photographs
and video). An Ethnographic Hypermedia Environment (EHE) was
created to represent data and analysis to the reader which
incorporates several ‘trails’ detailing the main
findings. We have now added a ‘methods trail’
in order to explore some of the issues involved in archiving
and re-using the existing data. Workshop participants will
be invited to navigate the methods trail and associated ‘evidence’
and discuss its design, content and ‘effectiveness’
in providing a suitable context for independent data reuse.
This event is open to all researchers, including postgraduate
students and non-academic researchers. The event is free and
refreshments will be provided. However, we cannot assist with
travel costs and places will be limited so booking early is
encouraged.
For further information about this event and to book a place
please contact
Beth Charles at charlesb@cardiff.ac.uk
To download the registration form click
here.
Workshop
2: the success of the first workshop has led to the organisation
of a second due this summer - WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FURTHER
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