On a need of protection of the qualitative data. From experiences of humanist-sociologist

This article provides arguments for creation of the archive of qualitative data in Poland. I dwell on history of the Polish memoirs data that–as collected mostly by Józef Chałasiński and his disciples–were in great deal, dispersed and destroyed. Nowadays, in face of digital techniques, one can collect memoirs, autobiographies, in-depth interviews–which are generally referred to personal documents–in relatively simple and cheap way. The final and necessary stage of field work in qualitative research should be organization of data in archive