ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre (QUALIDATA)

Research Resource: The aims of the QUALIDATA Resource Centre located in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex are: locating, assessing and documenting qualitative data and arranging for their deposit in suitable public archive repositories; disseminating information about such data; and raising archival consciousness among the social science research community. Ultimately, the Centre aims to implement a policy ensuring that qualitative data produced by future ESRC and other funded projects are offered for archiving. Those applying to ESRC for research grants over the past few months will have noticed the inclusion of questions relating to plans for archiving any qualitative data they produce. Principal investigators must therefore now be extra thoughtful in their plans for 'processing' materials they generate in the course of their research, for example, ensuring that interviews are fully transcribed and that tape recordings are of good sound quality. http://www.essex.ac.uk/qualidataBook Review