Share qualitative research data with the community
The Research Data Center “Qualiservice” at University of Bremen enables researchers from all Social Sciences to archive their qualitative research materials (e.g. interviews, field notes, visual data) and make them available for further scientific use. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Qualiservice is currently being implemented as nationwide data center for qualitative research data.
Your advantages at a glance
- Increased visibility and re-usability of your qualitative research materials
- Persistent identifiers (DOI) ensure long-lasting citability of your research data
- Internationally searchable metadata increase the findability of your research data
- Qualiservice offers comprehensive advice and close cooperation with researchers
- Qualiservice supports you in anonymizing and contextualizing your research data
- Qualiservice offers various options for (long-term) archiving and provision of your data
- Your research data are strongly protected and made available for scientific purposes
- Distributed archiving of mixed methods studies in cooperation with other data centers (e.g. GESIS)
The next steps
- Find more information about Qualiservice and contact us
- Qualiservice advises and supports you in resource planning and in preparing your research data for archiving and sharing
- After signing a data transfer agreement, you securely upload your data to Qualiservice, and social science domain experts prepare them for (long-term) preservation
- After a final proofreading and approval by you, the research data and the study report get persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
- he metadata and the study report are published, and interested parties can learn about your research data and use them after signing a usage agreement
Selected Literature
Qualiservice
Sterzer, W. & S. Kretzer, 2019: Archivierungsstrategien anpassen – Herausforderungen und Lösungen für die Archivierung und Sekundärnutzung von ethnologischen Forschungsdaten. In: Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis 43(1), S. 110–117. [LINK]
S. Kretzer & M. Diepenbroek, 2018: Flexible Strategien für eine forschungsfreundliche Archivierung und Nachnutzung qualitativer Forschungsdaten. In: RatSWD Working Paper 267/2018. Berlin, Rat für Sozial und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), S. 26–35. [LINK]
Data protection and anonymization in qualitative research
Gebel, T., M. Grenzer, J. Kreusch, S. Liebig, H. Schuster, R. Tscherwinka, O. Watteler, A. Witzel, 2015: Verboten ist, was nicht ausdrücklich erlaubt ist: Datenschutz in qualitativen Interviews. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 16(2), Art. 27. [LINK]
Kretzer, S., 2013: Arbeitspapier zur Konzeptentwicklung der Anonymisierung/Pseudonymisierung in Qualiservice. [LINK]
Re-use and secondary analysis of qualitative research data
Medjedović, I., 2014: Qualitative Sekundäranalyse: Zum Potenzial einer neuen Forschungsstrategie in der empirischen Sozialforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. [LINK]
Medjedović, I. & A. Witzel, 2010: Wiederverwendung von qualitativen Daten: Archivierung und Sekundärnutzung qualitativer Interviewtranskripte. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. [LINK]