Exercise 1
Review the research data center Qualiservice, accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD), which archives qualitative research data from social science disciplines and makes it available for scientific reuse.
- What support services does Qualiservice offer for researchers?
- What specific support does Qualiservice provide for data archiving?
URL: https://www.qualiservice.org/en/
Proposed Solution
- Qualiservice supports researchers in research data management, focusing on preparatory work for subsequent data sharing. Qualiservice provides advice during project planning and proposal submission (including cost calculation), accompanies and advises researchers in all phases of the research process – also regarding anonymization, research ethics, and data protection – and offers templates (e.g., for informed consent), guidelines (e.g., for data documentation), and tools (e.g., the anonymization tool QualiAnon).
- Qualiservice offers support throughout the entire data preparation process for subsequent archiving. The data center advises on cost calculations, data anonymization, contextualization, and metadata capture. After transferring the data to Qualiservice, the data is processed to be citable, assigned a persistent identifier (DOI), and made available for scientific reuse under previously defined usage conditions.