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ESDS QualidataLibby Bishop,
ESDS QualidataEconomic and Social Data Service
UK Data Archive
ESDS Awareness Day Friday 5 December
2003Royal Statistical Society
ESDS Qualidata
• specialist function of the new UK Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
• hosted by the UK Data Archive
• provides access to, and support for, a range of qualitative datasets
• the work builds on Qualidata's expertise and international reputation in this area, developed over the past eight years
Qualidata: old remit
• originally an independent unit within Dept Sociology
• UK national service for acquisition, dissemination and re-use of social science qualitative research data
• used network of UK archives for deposit
• worked closely with the UK Research Council (ESRC) to operate its Datasets Policy
• outreach activities and support for creating and depositing data, resource discovery
Types of qualitative data
• diverse data types: in-depth interviews ; semi-structured interviews; focus groups; oral histories; mixed methods data; open-ended survey questions; case notes/records of meetings; diaries/ research diaries
• multi-media: audio, video, photos and text (most common is interview transcriptions)
• formats: digital, paper, analogue audio-visual
• data structures - differ across different ‘document types’
Qualitative data collections
• data from National Research Council (ESRC) individual and programme research grant awards
• data from ‘classic’ social science studies
• other funders/sources
• focus on DIGITAL Collections, but also facilitate paper-based archiving
Classic datasets
• Peter Townsend – Poverty, old ageand Katherine Buildings
• Paul Thompson – oral history and Edwardians
• Ray Pahl –Hertfordshire Villages studies
• National Social Policy and Social Change Archive
Facilitate greater usage
encouraging:• researchers to consult existing data sources• Teachers to use real data for teaching and
learning• Students to explore original data sources
• make obtaining data more straightforward
• promotion… exploit existing and new networks
ESDS Qualidata:key activities
• enhanced user guides and digital samplers
• exemplars and case studies of re-use
• online access to qualitative data
• user support and training activities to support secondary analysis of qualitative data
Enhanced user guides and digital samplers
providing a better understanding of the study and research methods
• enhanced users guides – detailed notes on study methodology and re-use; ‘behind the scenes’ interviews with depositors; FAQs
• thematic pages – combining interviews
• digital samplers of classic sociology collections
Exemplars and case studies of re-use
providing guidance on data resources and how to re-use them
• overview of ways of re-using data
• case studies of re-use including reflections and commentary
• full bibliography of re-use articles
• online ‘packaged’ training resources
• user support and training programme
Online access to qualitative data
• new emphasis on providing direct access to collection content– supports more powerful resource discovery
– greater scope for searching and browsing content of data (supplementary to higher level study-related metadata)
– since users can search and explore content directly… can retrieve data immediately
• providing access to qualitative data via common interface (Edwardians Online)
• supporting tools for searching, retrieval, and analysis across different datasets
Towards a standard format for qualitative data resources
• data needs to be preserved in a uniform resource format
• easier for provider (maintenance, tools, interchange)
• easier for user (consistency across data sets)
• DDI provides an XML framework for survey content (variables) but currently no suitable standard format for the content of qualitative data
• need a comprehensive application that will enable:
• data interchange
• sophisticated on-line searching
• retrieval from encoded texts
The Edwardians Online Pilot
Basic search and retrieve functionality
• developed online querying function based on annotation of texts and themes in XML
• keyword search interview summaries database
• keyword search interview full transcripts
• search or browse by themes from list - retrieve extracts of text in particular documents coded by that theme
• jump from extract to view in full document
• filter searchers on subsets of interviewees e.g., age, gender
Qualidata Online: Edwardians Online – Phase I
Creation of a digital multimedia resource that integrates a wealth of existing primary and secondary materials:
• a catalogue of 444 interview summaries • 5 full electronic interview transcripts • thematic browsing of interview transcripts • a collection of digital sound clips • a set of contextual images of Edwardian life • background information and press reviews on the
original Paul Thompson study • details of publications based upon secondary studies
of the collection • an account of the digitization methodology
Qualidata Online
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