Making Qualitative Data Fit the "Data Documentation Initiative" or Vice Versa?

Abstract: The Finnish Social Science Data Archive is a newcomer in the area of data archiving for two reasons, firstly: it started its operation only in 1999 and secondly: from the very beginning it has had as an official strategy to enhance the reuse of available qualitative as well as quantitative data. Archiving and reusing of data has been a common and continuously expanding practise in quantitative research since the 1950s and 1960s. Qualitative research has thus far been almost invisible in this respect, except for a few successful cases like Qualidata in Essex, UK and Murray Research Center at Harvard, USA. Questions concerning archiving and reusing of qualitative data are many. Here I will concentrate on a very practical but important issue in making qualitative data reusable, i.e. documentation of data. I highlight some reasons for making appropriate and adequate data documentation and give the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) as an example of documenting social science data. The.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1036

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Making Qualitative Data Fit the "Data Documentation Initiative" or Vice Versa? ; volume:1 ; number:3 ; day:31 ; month:12 ; year:2000 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 1, Heft 3 (31.12.2000)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Kuula, Arja

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-1.3.1036
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0003194
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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