Tools: Data reuse
The following repositories and portals offer qualitative data that can be reused, with access varying based on specific reuse criteria:
- Accredited Research Data Centers (RatSWD) specializing in qualitative research data, such as:
- Qualiservice Bremen: https://www.qualiservice.org/en/
(possible reuse of ethnographic data, including sensitive content)1At Qualiservice, qualitative social science research data from various disciplines can be found. The data portfolio includes interview data, ethnographic materials such as field notes and observation logs, mixed-methods data, image and audio material, as well as audiovisual data.
- Qualiservice Bremen: https://www.qualiservice.org/en/
- Discipline-Specific Search Portals where data can be found, such as:
- EVIFA – in addition to ethnological literature, ethnological research data archived at Qualiservice https://www.evifa.de/
- Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung (Network): https://www.forschungsdaten-bildung.de/en/
- Repositories of One’s Own Institution (e.g., specific university repositories)
- Generic Repositories e. g. Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/, SocArxive: https://socopen.org/
- Meta-Portals for finding repositories: https://www.re3data.org/
- Meta-Portals for finding repositories, such as meta-portals where data can be found:
- Google Dataset Search: https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
- Open Knowledge Maps: https://openknowledgemaps.org/
- Science Open: https://www.scienceopen.com/
- OpenAire: https://www.openaire.eu/