Exercise 4 (Optional)
Since 2019, Qualiservice, in collaboration with the Specialized Information Service for Social and Cultural Anthropology (FID SKA), has been working on the development of an archival environment for digital research data and materials from ethnographic disciplines.
To achieve this, the existing services and advisory offerings, which Qualiservice initially developed primarily for data from qualitative interview studies, have been expanded. This ensures that materials from ethnographic research can now also be professionally archived under controlled conditions and reused in research and/or teaching.
Browse the Qualiservice search portal at: https://www.qualiservice.org/de/qsearch.html.
- What different types of research data and other contextual materials from ethnographic research have already been archived at Qualiservice and can be reused in research and/or teaching?
(Hint: Use the FILTER function to sort data by methods, e.g., participant observation.) - What ideas do you have for using the available data in your own research (or teaching)? What research questions from your own perspective could you apply to the material, or what analysis strategies could be used?
Proposed Solution
- The ethnographic materials that can be found at Qualiservice include, for example, ethnographic interviews (transcripts), chat protocols, transect walks, transcripts, field notes, as well as various contextual materials such as photos, sound recordings, data management plans, cooperation agreements, or a blank version of an informed consent form.
- Anne-Katrin Broocks archived ethnographic material1 Hornidge, A.-K., Barragán-Paladines, M. J., Broocks, A.-K. & Zimmer, M. (eds.) (2021). Mangroves and Meaning-Making: A mutual relationship over time? Ethnographic Data. Qualiservice, PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.929747 at Qualiservice in 2021, including transcripts of ethnographic interviews, expert interviews, and transect walks.
In the study report2 Broocks, A.-K. (2021). Mangroves and Meaning-Making: A mutual relationship over time? Ethnographic interview transcripts. https://doi.org/10.26092/ELIB/1071, which serves to contextualize the data material, she identifies related research focuses and topics for which the material could be of interest for reuse: gender studies, human-nature relationships, socio-ecological practices, kinship relations, resource management, governance, etc.