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Guidelines
Qualiservice’s guidelines on preparing, archiving and sharing qualitative research data are available below.
Additional guidelines are currently being revised and will be published soon. If you have any questions or need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Guideline on the contextualization of qualitative research data
The contextualization of primary research enables secondary users to gain a better understanding of the research topic, the research design, and the methods used in the primary research project. Primary researchers can provide any materials for contextualization that they consider useful. The minimum requirement for the contextualization of research data at Qualiservice is a study report, which will be assigned a persistent identifier (DOI). This study report, together with the metadata, serves to showcase your data and will be published internationally.
Heuer, Jan-Ocko; Kretzer, Susanne; Mozygemba, Kati; Huber, Elisabeth & Hollstein, Betina (2020): Kontextualisierung qualitativer Forschungsdaten für die Nachnutzung – eine Handreichung für Forschende zur Erstellung eines Studienreports. Qualiservice Working Papers 12020, Bremen, http://dx.doi.org/10.26092/elib/166. (in German)
Guideline on the anonymization of research data
Qualiservice's anonymization concept replaces sensitive with scientifically relevant information. Detailed information on the procedure and examples can be found in our handout.
Mozygemba, Kati & Betina Hollstein (2023): Anonymisierung und Pseudonymisierung qualitativer textbasierter Forschungsdaten: eine Handreichung. Qualiservice Working Papers 5-2023, Bremen, https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2525 (in German)
Guideline on informed consent
Qualiservice provides templates for informed consent to the processing of personal data in German and English on its website. In addition, we now offer a compilation of helpful information on the topic.