Title: Organizing and Archiving Qualitative Data with the Qualitative Data Repository

Speaker: Dessislava Kirilova

Date: June 16, 20223

Time: 1:00 PM MDT

Venue:  Virtual

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This session of the Social Sciences Fridays series will provide an overview of options for sharing qualitative data, with a focus on resources provided by the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)

Abstract:

Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) – QDR’s Senior Curation Specialist, Dessi Kirilova, will demonstrate how QDR’s deposit process works. She will also offer real-world examples of nuanced data sharing possibilities, including of sensitive data that is secured under varying levels of access control. Researchers who attend this session will gain a better understanding of qualitative data sharing norms and practices in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. You will also learn of simple steps to best manage qualitative research materials, which will help with project planning and enable future archiving and re-use of carefully collected materials.

Dessi Kirilova is the senior curation specialist at the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). Originally trained as a social scientist, in her current role she works to educate and assist other social, behavioral, and health science researchers interested in making their data shareable and their research transparent. More broadly, she publishes and presents on topics around data management and sharing, qualitative data curation, the ethics of data sharing, and research transparency in the social-behavioral domain.