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Isabel Steinhardt et al.

Opening up and Sharing
Data from Qualitative
Research: A Primer
Results of a workshop run by the research group „Digitalization
and Science“ at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin on January
17, 2020
Opening up and Sharing Data from Qualitative Research: A Primer
Isabel Steinhardt \ International Centre for Higher Education Research (Incher-Kassel), University of
Kassel, steinhardt@incher.uni-kassel.de
Caroline Fischer \ University of Potsdam, caroline.fischer.ii@uni-potsdam.de
Maximilian Heimstädt \ Weizenbaum Institute and Berlin University of the Arts, m.heimstaedt@udk-berlin.de
Simon David Hirsbrunner \ Freie Universität Berlin, hirsbrunner@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Dilek İkiz-Akıncı \ Research Data Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (RDC-
DZHW), ikiz@dzhw.eu
Lisa Kressin \ University of Luzern, lisa.kressin@unilu.ch
Susanne Kretzer \ Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice, skretzer@uni-bremen.de
Andreas Möllenkamp \ University of Hamburg, andreas.moellenkamp@uni-hamburg.de
Maike Porzelt \ DIPF, Leibniz-Institut for Research and Information in Education, porzelt@dipf.de
Rima-Maria Rahal \ Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, r.m.rahal@tilburguniversity.edu
Sonja Schimmler \ Weizenbaum Institute and Fraunhofer FOKUS, sonja.schimmler@fokus.fraunhofer.de
René Wilke \ Technische Universität Berlin, rene.wilke@tu-berlin.de
Hannes Wünsche \ Weizenbaum Institute and Fraunhofer FOKUS, hannes.wuensche@fokus.fraunhofer.de

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Opening up and Sharing Data from Qualitative Research: A Primer

           Table of Contents

     1     Foreword	                                                              5

     2     Introduction	                                                          5

     3     Opening up and sharing data	                                           7

     3.1   What is qualitative data?	                                             7
     3.2   What is actually meant by opening up and sharing?	                     7
     3.3   What arguments speak in favor of opening up and sharing my data?	      8
     3.4   What arguments speak against opening up and sharing my data?	          8

     4     Data management plan 	                                                 9

     4.1   What is a data management plan?	                                       9
     4.2   What role does a data management plan play in opening up data?	        9
     4.3   Where can I find help creating a data management plan?	               10

     5     Data generation	                                                      10

     5.1   Where can I find qualitative research data for re-use?	               10
     5.2   Who is the author of primary, contextual data or collections?	        10
     5.3   Can the idea of opening
                           ​​      up and sharing data distort my data?	         11
     5.4   What do I have to consider if I want to open up and share my data?	   11
     5.5   What should I pay attention to, in terms of data protection?	         11
     5.6   What should I consider regarding obtaining consent?	                  12
Opening up and Sharing Data from Qualitative Research: A Primer

     6     Contextualization and data preparation	                                                 12

     6.1   Why should I contextualize my data?	                                                    12
     6.2   How can I contextualize my data?	                                                       13
     6.3   How should I prepare my data for reuse?	                                                13
     6.4   Can I publish contextual data that is generated during data collection and analysis?	   14

     7     Research data centers and repositories	                                                 14

     7.1   Where can I archive my data?	                                                           14
     7.2   What do research data centers (RDCs) do?	                                               14
     7.3   How do I find the right RDC for my qualitative data?	                                   15
     7.4   When should RDCs ideally be contacted?	                                                 15

     8     Conclusion	                                                                             16

     9     Literature	                                                                             16

     9.1   Methodological discussion on opening and sharing qualitative data	                      16
     9.2   Qualitative data	                                                                       19
     9.3   Data privacy and copyright	                                                             19
     9.4   Referencing data	                                                                       20
     9.5   Statements	                                                                             20
     9.6   Biases of the research process	                                                         20
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1      Foreword

The call for free access to research data and mate-          primarily to qualitatively researching scientists in
rials is becoming louder and louder from the polit-          Germany. For this reason, it was initially written
ical and scientific communities in Germany. More             in German. One year later, we have now decided
and more researchers are facing demands to open              to translate the handout into English as well. The
up qualitative research data for scientific purposes.        reasons are twofold: first, we want to make it acces-
They often have a general interest in sharing their          sible to researchers in Germany with little knowl-
data, but are unsure how to proceed. This handout            edge of German. Second, we also want to give in-
was developed to provide an initial introduction to          terested people outside Germany an insight into the
opening and sharing qualitative data. It was devel-          German system and the German discussion about
oped at a workshop held in Berlin in January 2020,           opening up and sharing qualitative data. Due to the
organized by the research group „Digitization of             objectives and the history of its development, the
Science“ of the Weizenbaum Institute, together               handout focuses on the German context. This in-
with its associate researcher Dr. Isabel Steinhardt          cludes the literature references and further sources,
from the University of Kassel. The workshop in-              and the references to research data centers as well
volved staff from German research data centers as            as legal issues. We have deliberately not included a
well as mentees and mentors from the Fellow Pro-             contextualization of the German situation in inter-
gram Open Science1 who already have experience               national discussions in order to keep the handout as
with Open Science, qualitative research, and in-             short as possible.
terdisciplinary research. The handout is addressed

2      Introduction

The demand for research data and materials to be             qualitative data types, field-specific methodolog-
made accessible has become louder in recent years,           ical approaches and the relationship between re-
driven by political actors and funders, but also             searcher and participant. An increasing number of
by science itself, e.g. through the Open Science             researchers now face demands to open up qualita-
movement. The term open science includes vari-               tive research data for scientific purposes, but even
ous sub-areas such as Open Access, Open Source               if they have a general interest in opening up their
or Open Educational Resources. In the following,             data, they also face the associated challenges, mak-
we will focus specifically on the sub-area of O​pen          ing it difficult to know how best to proceed.
Data, i.e., the accessibility of data. While the prin-
ciple of accessible data has already taken root in           The aim of this primer is to answer basic introducto-
quantitative social research, qualitative research is        ry questions on the subject of opening up and sharing
faced with other challenges in making data acces-            qualitative research data. By opening up and sharing
sible, for which solutions must be found in cooper-          data, we mean making data accessible for second-
ation with all the relevant actors. These solutions          ary use for other researchers. In this guide, we will
must, for example, do justice to the specifics of            address the differences between different research

1
    https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Open_Science_Fellows_Program/Program
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fields and their specific requirements in dealing with    In addition, the various types of data (e.g. images,
qualitative research data, taking into account the dif-   videos, interviews, observations, documents) and
ferences between different types of data (e.g., inter-    the different data collection and evaluation proce-
view transcripts, video recordings, observation logs,     dures in the various fields must be taken into ac-
primary and context data). For a fundamental discus-      count if research data is to be opened up and shared.
sion of the concept of (qualitative) research data, we    The individual researcher also faces the challenge
refer the reader to the relevant specialist literature    of deciding whether and which of their own data
(e.g., Corti 2000; DGS 2019; Hirschauer 2014; Hol-        can be shared and be made available for reuse, and
lstein & Strübing 2018; Kretzer 2013).                    how this should be done. To ensure that data is safe
                                                          to be reused, it is also crucial to be able to fall back
Generally, there are reasons that speak in favor of       on technical expertise, practical experience, rou-
opening up and sharing, but also concerns and risks       tines and corresponding infrastructures for open-
(Akademie für Soziologie 2019; Birke & May-               ing up and sharing (e.g., via research data centers),
er-Ahuja 2017; Corti & Thompson 2006; Dunkel,             which, however, have not yet been developed for
Hanekop & Mayer-Ahuja 2019; Gebel, Rosenbohm              all data types and research processes. Qualitative
& Hense 2017; Kühn 2006; Laudel & Bielick 2019;           data cannot simply be made available for second-
Richter & Mojescik 2019; Rosenbohm, Gebel &               ary use by following the existing and established
Hense 2015; Steinhardt 2018; von Unger 2018).             infrastructures for quantitative research data (DGS
Arguments in favor of opening up and sharing data         2019; Knoblauch 2013; RatSWD 2015; von Ung-
for primary research are citation boosts for citable      er 2018). Rather, they require specific (including
data sets and research results, the increased visibil-    methodological, data protection and research eth-
ity of the empirical data collection process, and the     ical) requirements for subsequent use, which we
possibility of networking. Secondary researchers          will discuss in more detail below. It should be em-
can use open data to find contrasting data or addi-       phasized that the opening up and sharing of qual-
tional data for their own research without dedicat-       itative research data must not be a unilateral deci-
ing resources to the generation of new data for these     sion by funders and political actors.
purposes. The secondary use of research data can
also contribute to further development for the entire     In recent years, studies about attitudes towards and
research field, for example with regard to method-        the feasibility of opening up qualitative data have
ological questions, by avoiding “over-questioning”,       emerged increasingly, as have examples of second-
by reusing data for teaching, and by gradually ac-        ary use of qualitative data (including Corti, Day
cumulating more extensive and systematic databas-         & Backhouse 2000; Corti 2007; Helfen, Hense &
es. Since qualitative data cannot be replicated, the      Nicklich 2015; Huschka, Knoblauch, Jagodzinski,
long-term preservation of this data is of enormous        Schumann & Witzel 2015; Oellers & Solga 2013;
importance, also for historical reasons.                  Krügel & Ferrez 2013; Laudel & Bielick 2019; Med-
                                                          jedović 2011; Medjedović & Witzel 2010; Smioski
Despite these benefits, the archiving, provision and      2013). It is clear from these studies that, in addition
reuse of data is not yet a common practice in quali-      to clarifying the legal requirements, the particular
tative social research (Hollstein & Strübing 2018).       challenges for opening up and sharing qualitative
This is due, on the one hand, to the interwoven na-       data are creating as comprehensive a documentation
ture of the data collection, processing, analysis and     as possible and contextualizing the data to enable
interpretative steps of qualitative research and, on      reuse (Corti 2000; Hollstein & Strübing 2018).
the other hand, to the iterative and alternating epis-
temological process that goes hand in hand with           This primer is intended to help with the question of
the ongoing contextualization of the collected data.      how qualitative data can be made openly available
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and shared. It was developed by researchers from           questions. This was also done to keep the manual
various disciplines in cooperation with employees          concise and clear. In addition, the primer includes
of research data centers. The focus is on answering        references, links and an annotated list of literature
fundamental and very practical questions, which is         at the end of the document as additional resources
why this primer has been structured as a catalog of        addressing the topics raised here.

3      Opening up and sharing data

3.1    What is qualitative data?                           process, e.g., socio-demographic questionnaires,
                                                           postscripts, interview guidelines, and category sys-
In principle, it can be debated whether one can and        tems. Data management plans can also be referred
should speak of “qualitative” and “quantitative”           to as context data. These context data are of great
data at all. A curve diagram on a sheet of paper           importance for an understanding of the collected
can, for example, represent a quantitative data set        research data and their re-use, but can also be of in-
as well as representing a qualitatively understood         terest for opening up and sharing in themselves, in-
symbol. Whether research data are viewed as qual-          dependent of the collected data, which is why they
itative or quantitative in the context of a specific       are also included in the following explanations.
research design does not depend so much on their
physical appearance, but on their specific use in
the research process (Leonelli 2015). Neverthe-            3.2   What is actually meant by opening up and
less, there are types of data that are commonly as-              sharing?
sociated with qualitative or quantitative research
(see, e.g., Baur & Blasius 2019; Flick 2018; Flick,        By opening up and sharing qualitative research
Kardoff & Steinke 2015).                                   data, we mean making them accessible for sec-
                                                           ondary use. However, this does not mean simply
In this guide, we refer to qualitative data as data that   posting as much data as possible on the internet,
is produced and used in the context of qualitative re-     but rather making it available in a controlled and
search processes. Such research data are typically         documented manner to the respective research
characterized by a high level of situational context in-   community, taking into account specific method-
formation. They are often less structured, standardized    ological and content-related criteria. According-
and metrized than is the case with data from quantita-     ly, research data centers (RDCs) and repositories
tive research (Kitchin 2014). Qualitative data are gen-    are used to archive and make available reusable
erated, for example, in the context of interviews and      research data, usually with different access meth-
participant observations and are manifest, among oth-      ods (download, remote desktop, on-site) and ac-
er things, in the form of audio recordings, transcripts,   cess levels (e.g., data access only for scientific
field notes, video recordings or photographs.              purposes), which go hand in hand with different
                                                           anonymization requirements and corresponding-
Furthermore, we distinguish between raw data (e.g.,        ly varying potentials for re-use and analysis. For
the audio file of an interview or the handwritten re-      many primary researchers as well as participants
cordings of participant observation) and processed         (or field participants, informants, etc.), controlled
data (e.g., anonymized transcripts, notes, images).        access to the data is a basic requirement in order to
In addition, context data is generated in the research     even consider opening up the research data.
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                                                                  the context of research projects funded by
3.3    What arguments speak in favor of open-
                                                                  these agencies to be archived and made
       ing up and sharing my data?
                                                                  available for secondary use. In EU-funded
                                                                  projects such as the Horizon 2020 program
  \\    Personal benefit: Publicly shared data are
                                                                  of the European Commission, archiving
        seen as a type of publication that can be
                                                                  has even become a mandatory criterion (the
        cited. Research data centers, for example,
                                                                  possibility of subsequent use can, however,
        work with the allocation of Digital Object
                                                                  be excluded under certain circumstances).
        Identifiers (DOI) in order to guarantee that
                                                                  Researchers who cannot archive their data
        the data can be permanently referenced.
                                                                  and make them reusable must increasingly
        In addition, cooperation and collaboration
                                                                  justify why this is not possible.
        projects can emerge when data is used by
        other researchers. Opening up and sharing,
        accordingly, can facilitate the collegial ex-
        change and learning process and thus also
        increase the quality of one’s own research.       3.4    What arguments speak against opening
  \\    Practical research benefit: Secondary use                up and sharing my data?
        of research data has many advantages for
        the respective research communities, even           \\    Sensitivity of the data: Qualitative data can
        though this argument is still largely ignored             be highly sensitive. If, for example, it can-
        in many fields. In particular, so far only rare           not be ensured that the data is fully ano-
        advantage is taken of the potential gains in              nymized, researchers must consider wheth-
        knowledge from comparative research on                    er it is possible to open up and share the
        different data sets, the possibility of longi-            processed data, especially when vulnerable
        tudinal analyses with secondary data or the               groups (e.g., refugees, migrants, ill or crim-
        possibility of combining data sets for a sec-             inalized participants, children and adoles-
        ondary research project with the possible                 cents, etc.), are concerned. In addition, field
        addition of new data, but all these have great            access can be denied for sensitive topics
        potential. Using data that has already been               if researchers announce that they want to
        collected can also prevent over-researching               share the data.
        a field (a known problem, e.g., from school         \\    Intervention into the research process: If
        research). Particularly in the case of vul-               opening up and sharing data would lead to
        nerable groups, attempts should be made to                an intervention into the research process,
        protect the field as much as possible.                    then the advantages and disadvantages
  \\    Scientific quality and research quality:                  must be weighed against each other. Usu-
        Sharing data makes the research process                   ally, opening up and sharing data does not
        transparent. This can increase the quality                constitute an intervention into the research
        of research and stimulate method devel-                   process. An intervention into the research
        opment. Furthermore, most data collection                 process could take place, for example, if
        is publicly funded, which is why the data                 field access is not possible or if interview
        should also be made available to the (scien-              partners announce that they will not an-
        tific) general public again (see also the Pub-            swer certain questions if the answers can be
        lic Money, Public Code campaign).                         opened up and shared by the researchers.
                                                                  An intervention could also arise when re-
  \\    Demand from funders: Research funders                     searchers feel inhibited and sense that their
        increasingly expect the data collected in                 freedom of research is being obstructed by
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          the “controlling” influence of subsequent                 involve a suitable RDC when submitting the
          data publication, and consequently proceed                application (See: When should RDCs ideal-
          differently with their research, for example              ly be contacted?) In the case of projects for
          by refraining from asking certain questions.              which no additional funding can be applied
    \\    Time and cost: Preparing data so that it can              for, e.g. PhD projects, investing the time to
          be opened up and shared can be time-con-                  make the data usable still makes sense. On
          suming and costly. For third-party funded                 the one hand, one can demonstrate one’s
          projects, there is the possibility to apply for           research process transparently and make a
          additional funds for the preparation of the               contribution that is beneficial to the research
          data for reuse. It makes sense to contact and             community. On the other hand, the data then
                                                                    count as an independent publication.

4        Data management plan

4.1      What is a data management plan?                    4.2    What role does a data management plan
                                                                   play in opening up data?
A data management plan (DMP) contains informa-
tion about the collection, processing, storage, ar-         DMPs are a useful tool for any type of empirical
chiving, publication and re-use possibilities of re-        research project. For qualitative projects, and espe-
search data in the context of a research project. When      cially for opening up qualitative data, DMPs offer
creating a DMP, the aim is to determine these activ-        several advantages:
ities in as target-oriented, systematic and efficient a
manner as possible. The benefit of such formalized            \\    Creating a DMP helps researchers consid-
planning is to avoid restrictions in the later use of               er in advance how the data will be handled
data through early and comprehensive planning.                      during the project.
                                                              \\    A DMP can and should be adapted over
A DMP can span anything from a few paragraphs                       the course of the project. This openness
to several pages. Many third-party funders (BMBF,                   and flexibility correspond to the iterative
DFG, HBS, EU Horizon 2020) require a DMP as                         knowledge and data collection process in
part of a funding application for the allocation of                 qualitative research projects.
funds from certain funding lines.
                                                              \\    A DMP facilitates work with a repository or
Especially with regard to qualitative data, DMPs                    RDC, through which qualitative data can be
are sometimes controversial. It is not uncommon                     shared. It is therefore advisable to involve
for the obligation to create and submit a DMP to                    an RDC when submitting the application.
be seen as too tight a corset, which does not do              \\    The DMP makes it easier for primary re-
justice to the iterative and corrective qualitative                 searchers to write a data and methods re-
research process. However, DMPs do not have to                      port or study report, which most RDCs
explain every step of the data collection in detail                 make available to secondary users in order
and there is also no need to view them as a static                  to contextualize the data (Contextualization
work product. Instead, DMPs can and should be                       and Data Preparation).
adapted in the course of the research process.
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4.3      Where can I find help creating a data              Tools for creating a data management plan:
         management plan?
                                                              \\    DMPonline
General information:                                          \\    DMPtool

    \\    Research Data Centers                               \\    Research Data Management Organiser

    \\    Forschungsdaten.info                                \\    Exemplary plan from the German Institute
                                                                    for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
    \\    Research data management at the HU Berlin
                                                              \\    Checklist for creating a DMP in empirical
                                                                    educational research

5        Data generation

Data generation is used here to refer to both the           5.2    Who is the author of primary, contextual
collection of primary data (e.g. through interviews,               data or collections?
video recordings, participant observation) and to
the compilation of data (e.g. creating a corpus from        Whether research data are copyrighted works is
newspaper articles).                                        difficult to judge and must be considered on a case-
                                                            by-case basis. According to German copyright law,
                                                            copyright protection arises when a work is created.
5.1      Where can I find qualitative research data         As a rule, mental effort that manifests itself in a
         for re-use?                                        concrete work and shows certain individual char-
                                                            acteristics is sufficient to meet this definition. Pure
In addition to contacting researchers directly, there are   information and facts are not protected by copy-
a number of other ways to search for available data.        right, but can carry ancillary copyrights. In the best-
                                                            case scenario, questions of copyright and ancillary
    \\    Accredited research data centers (RatSWD)         copyright should be clarified at the beginning of
          that specialize in qualitative research data      the research project (as well as establishing who
    \\    Repositories of your own institution              the copyright co-holders are). Furthermore, con-
                                                            tractual aspects with the employing institution can
    \\    General repositories, e.g., Zenodo, OSF,          also become relevant at this point if, for example,
          SocArxive                                         they hold the rights of use to the generated data via
    \\    Meta-portals in which repositories can be         the employment contract. Finding out which claus-
          found: re3data.org                                es or contractual agreements with one’s employer
                                                            refer to data is therefore important. The answers to
    \\    Meta-portals in which data can be found:
                                                            these questions largely determine who is entitled or
          Google Dataset Search, Open Knowledge
                                                            potentially obliged to archive the data collected or
          Maps, Science Open, OpenAire
                                                            make it available for reuse.
    \\    Subject-specific meta-portals in which data
          can be found: Verbund Forschungsdaten
          Bildung
    \\    DOI providers: Datacite, Crossref
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5.3    Can the idea of opening
                        ​​     up and sharing              of the collection and processing of the data to ensure
       data distort my data?                               that the data is interpretable.

Strictly speaking, surveys such as interviews or even      In addition to documentation, data protection (ano-
participatory observations are not natural situations      nymization) and access to the data (curation) are par-
and are therefore always “artificial”, insofar as they     ticularly relevant for sharing qualitative primary data
are not non-invasive and more or less completely           and/or context data (such as interview guidelines,
unnoticed observations of natural situations (such         transcription rules or video manuals for observation
as unobtrusively observing the behavior of people          situations). it is therefore essential to clarify in ad-
in a shopping street). Announcing to participants          vance whether the degree of anonymization required
that the data to be collected will later be opened up      for publication would still enable a meaningful re-
and shared can add to the artificiality of the situation   analysis, and whether the data can actually be contex-
and trigger a specific reaction by participants. The       tualized sufficiently, as well as which access route and
researcher must therefore decide whether to obtain         access level would be most suitable for the data.
consent from the interviewed / observed persons to
reuse the data before data collection, or whether this
is only done after the survey (so-called “debrief-         5.5    What should I pay attention to, in terms of
ing”). Obtaining consent after data collection (and,              data protection?
if necessary, transcription or processing of the data)
has the additional advantage that participants can         Data protection applies to personal data of natural
then fully appraise which data they consent to shar-       persons. The European General Data Protection
ing. There may also be research projects in which          Regulation (GDPR) applies in Germany. In addi-
opening up and sharing must be generally ruled out,        tion to the GDPR, other legal bases must be ob-
e.g., due to data protection law or research ethics.       served. The Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) is
                                                           relevant for private institutions as well as for fed-
                                                           eral public institutions and, to a limited extent, for
5.4    What do I have to consider if I want to             public institutions in the federal states. State data
       open up and share my data?                          protection laws (LDSG) are relevant for public in-
                                                           stitutions in the federal states, such as universities.
If the decision has been made to make the collected        In addition, there are data protection regulations in
data available for re-use, it is helpful to decide where   special laws such as the school laws of the respec-
and how the data will be shared early on in the re-        tive federal states, the Federal Statistics Act or the
search process. In general, it is recommended that         Social Code, which must be observed if applicable.
data preparation for archiving and sharing be carried      The first thing to do always, however, is to check the
out during the research process, so that complex doc-      European GDPR, as it takes precedence over other
umentation and reconstruction work does not have to        legal sources. The data protection law of the federal
be carried out shortly before the end of the research      government or the federal states is only applicable
project. It helps to consult the data management           if the GDPR contains escape clauses or loopholes.
officers at one’s institution or at an RDC, who can        At the beginning of a research project, therefore, it
provide helpful information on research data man-          should be clarified which data protection require-
agement that facilitates data sharing and archiving.       ments must be observed during the project. Most
Central points that must be considered to enable data      universities also have data protection officers and
re-use are: Compliance with legal aspects (especial-       ethics committees who can be consulted on ques-
ly data protection and copyright), consultation with a     tions relating to the handling of personal data.
research data center / repository, and documentation
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                                                                   require parental consent in addition to or in-
5.6      What should I consider regarding obtaining
                                                                   stead of the consent of the child. National
         consent?
                                                                   escape clauses allow a lower age limit to
                                                                   be set, but no lower than 13 years. To our
A declaration of consent means that the interviewed
                                                                   knowledge, the general national laws in
or observed person gives informed consent to the
                                                                   Germany (BDSG, LDSG) do not specify
collection and use of their data. Informed means
                                                                   age limits lower than the GDPR. However,
that the research goal, the research procedure, the
                                                                   more explicit requirements can sometimes
rights of the participant and, if applicable, other
                                                                   be found in special laws such as the school
uses of the collected data have been explained and
                                                                   laws. When research is carried out with
that the participant has understood this information.
                                                                   people under guardianship, the consent of
Consent to data collection and consent to opening
                                                                   the guardian must be obtained.
up and sharing data do not have to be given in one
step. For example, some research data centers rec-           \\    If the (anonymized) primary data are to
ommend obtaining consent about data sharing after                  be made available for subsequent use, this
data collection, since participants can then better                must be listed in the consent form.
assess what information they have revealed during            \\    Usually, consent for collecting primary data
data collection and which information they want to                 must be obtained before data collection.
release for reuse.                                                 Consent for sharing (anonymized) primary
                                                                   data can sometimes be obtained after data
    \\    Obtaining informed consent to open up and                collection. This depends on the research
          share the collected data is necessary ac-                context, the sensitivity of the data, and the
          cording to the GDPR and required from a                  trust placed in researchers.
          perspective of research ethics. Consent can
          also be given orally. Obtaining written con-       \\    The data collection and the associated
          sent is recommended, however, due to the                 documents used in the field (such as the
          obligation to provide evidence.                          informed consent form) are subject to ap-
                                                                   proval in certain fields of investigation
    \\    Sufficient time should be allowed before                 (e.g., school). These procedures can be very
          data collection to inform the participants. It           time-consuming (especially in cross-border
          is not enough to briefly present the infor-              projects) and should be planned according-
          mation on data protection and the consent                ly. Often, the informed consent must also
          sheet. The participants must have under-                 be presented to the institutional data protec-
          stood the actual situation.                              tion officer as part of ethical and data pro-
    \\    According to the GDPR (see Art. 8 Para.                  tection review processes.
          2 GDPR), participants under the age of 16

6        Contextualization and data preparation

6.1      Why should I contextualize my data?               contextualization. Contextualization helps second-
                                                           ary researchers to understand and use the data in the
In order to be able to open up and share qualita-          best possible way, so to speak “to slip into the shoes
tive data, the data must be enriched with the neces-       of the primary researchers”, even though they lack
sary contextual information. This process is called        direct experience of the primary data collection.
Opening up and Sharing Data from Qualitative Research: A Primer                                                    \ 13

6.2    How can I contextualize my data?                   6.3    How should I prepare my data for reuse?

To facilitate re-use, it is helpful for the secondary     In addition to the contextualization of research data
researchers to receive the contextual information in      through documentation, data preparation is central
a bundle, which is why research data centers usu-         for its sharing and secondary use. Data preparation
ally require a study report, data and methods re-         refers to the steps that are necessary to share re-
port, and contextualization reports in addition to        search data in conformity with research ethics and
the primary data, which they then have ready for          data protection law, and in a way that is understand-
subsequent users. The documentation of the data           able and usable. When it comes to interview data,
collection context can contain, for example, the fol-     this concerns mainly transcription and anonymiza-
lowing information:                                       tion. Anonymization is necessary in almost all re-
                                                          search contexts, not only to protect the people inter-
  \\    Project structure (e.g., research question,       viewed or involved, but also to protect third parties
        research design)                                  about whom, for example, someone has spoken. In
  \\    Project details (e.g., research funders, mem-     the case of some data, however, anonymization is
        bers of the research team and                     difficult to achieve without destroying the analy-
                                                          sis potential of this data for secondary analyses or
  \\    professional background and status)               for teaching purposes (e.g., in the case of video re-
  \\    The survey method and the survey instrument       cordings). In this case, RDCs offer access channels
        (e.g., interview guide or experimental setup)     with different restriction levels to make such data
                                                          available in a controlled and legally conform man-
  \\    Details on how the survey was carried out
                                                          ner. This possibility should be discussed with the
        (e.g., how were participants recruited, who
                                                          respective repository / RDC at an early stage. Then,
        carried out the data collection, location of
                                                          a database can be made available with different ac-
        the data collection, circumstances of the data
                                                          cess levels (e.g., regarding anonymized transcripts
        collection, such as the type of data collection
                                                          as well as underlying audio recordings).
        or type of protocol, disturbances during the
        data collection, length of the session).
                                                          To anonymize raw data (e.g., from interviews, vid-
  \\    Details on participants (e.g., status, func-      eo recordings, observation protocols, images), the
        tion, socio-demographic data, inclusion of        data are put into writing according to certain stan-
        respondents in the research process through       dards and rules (transcription). Documenting these
        sharing the results with them)                    transcription processes improves the reusability of
  \\    Data for connecting data points, e.g.,            the data, so the following information is helpful:
        chronological order in the case of several
        sessions with the same person                       \\    Which standards and rules were used for
                                                                  the transcription (e.g., which transcription
  \\    Transcription rules and anonymization pro-
                                                                  rules have been applied – see also bibliog-
        cedure (see also the following section)
                                                                  raphy)
Some RDCs (e.g., RDC Education at DIPF or                   \\    Who performed the transcription? (e.g., re-
Qualiservice) provide researchers with recommen-                  searchers, student assistants, professional
dations for contextualizing qualitative survey data.              transcription service)
                                                            \\    According to which rules or heuristics were
                                                                  parts of the raw data excluded from tran-
                                                                  scription? (e.g., small talk before the start
                                                                  of the official interview)
Opening up and Sharing Data from Qualitative Research: A Primer                                                    \ 14

    \\    What rules were used for anonymization?
                                                          or category systems using software such as
          This does not mean making the anonymiza-
                                                          MAXQDA or Atlas.ti. Such data can also be
          tion protocol available, which would en-
                                                          opened up and shared. Some research communi-
          able de-anonymization. Rather, the aim is
                                                          ties are currently discussing whether disclosing
          to show which identifiers have been ano-
                                                          “code trees” or “category systems” should be re-
          nymized in what way, i.e., the anonymiza-
                                                          quired for theses or during the review processes
          tion procedure should be described.
                                                          for publication in scientific journals.
This information can be described in the data and
methods report/ study report/ contextualization report.   However, closed technical standards of the ex-
                                                          isting software solutions can be problematic. For
                                                          example, the evaluation programs MAXQDA or
6.4      Can I publish contextual data that is gen-       Atlas.ti are not open source, which is why coding
         erated during data collection and analysis?      schemes that are saved and made available in such
                                                          programs cannot be reused by those who do not
On the one hand, contextual data is generated             have access to a license. When publishing memos,
during data collection, such as when interview            care must also be taken to ensure that anonymiza-
guidelines, observation protocols or experimen-           tion is maintained (e.g., not referring to the par-
tal setups are designed. On the other hand, con-          ticipant as “he” or “she” if the data ought to be
textual data is generated when analyzing qualita-         anonymized in a gender-neutral manner).
tive data such as memos, codes, code structures

7        Research data centers and repositories

7.1      Where can I archive my data?                     7.2   What do research data centers (RDCs) do?

Researchers can choose between different options          RDCs are facilities at universities or other scien-
for archiving their data and making it reusable (e.g.,    tific institutions that act as service providers to
repositories of their own institution, free reposito-     improve science‘s access to research data. RDCs
ries such as Zenodo, or RDCs). When selecting an          advise researchers on questions of data prepara-
option that is suitable for the researchers and the       tion (e.g., documentation and anonymization), but
data, there are a few things to consider: How and         they do not usually conduct data preparation them-
where can long-term archiving and easy retrieval of       selves. They back up research data and ensure their
the data be guaranteed? Is the data shared in a data      permanent preservation and reusability (long-term
protection compliant manner, can access to sensi-         archiving). Long-term accessibility is ensured by
tive data be controlled, and can participants revoke      regularly migrating the data to current data for-
the consent they have originally given? Is field or       mats, archiving the data with backup copies in a
data type-specific support guaranteed? Are my data        professional IT infrastructure, and assigning digi-
protected from commercial use? In this primer, we         tal object identifiers (DOIs) so that the data is per-
focus primarily on the functions and offers of RDCs       manently referenceable. In addition, RDCs ensure
in German-speaking countries, which specialize in         transparent and standardized regulation of access to
qualitative research data.                                the data. To do this, on the one hand, when submit-
                                                          ting the data, they check the sensitivity of the data
Opening up and Sharing Data from Qualitative Research: A Primer                                                \ 15

                                                         \\    Research Data Centre for Higher Education
and the degree of anonymization carried out by the
                                                               Research and Science Studies (RDC-DZHW)
primary researchers. Then, in consultation with the
primary researchers, the appropriate access routes       \\    Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für qualita-
are selected, matching the sensitivity of the data .           tive arbeitssoziologische Forschungsdaten
The sensitivity of the data is measured by how high            (RDC eLabour)
the chance is that the participants could be identi-     \\    RDC Qualiservice
fied and how great the potential damages would be
if the data were to become de-anonymized. On the         \\    Research Data Center of the Socio-Eco-
other hand, RDCs usually conclude data usage con-              nomic Panel
tracts with secondary users, in which they obligate
themselves, among other things, not to attempt any     7.4    When should RDCs ideally be contacted?
de-anonymization of the data. One advantage of us-
ing RDCs when opening up and sharing primary           Ideally, RDCs should be contacted while the re-
research data is that they can provide clarity and     search idea is being developed, to discuss data
certainty about legal requirements in the process.     management and, if necessary, a DMP, and to apply
                                                       for appropriate resources in the project application.
RDCs establish controlled access to the data in dif-   During the preparation phase of the data collection,
ferent ways. In the case of less sensitive data, re-   RDCs can be contacted to check the consent forms
searchers can download them after submitting an        with regard to data archiving and secondary data
application. In the case of sensitive data, some-      use. RDCs do not intervene in the research process,
times only on-site access is possible and research-    but can advise researchers on the steps for publish-
ers can only access the data on the premises of the    ing data. Seeking this advice early can help avoid
RDC. In addition, additional security measures are     problems with data archiving and secondary data
often taken, e.g., there is no USB access to the on-   use (e.g., lack of resources, consent forms making
site computers. Cell phones or laptops are often not   secondary use difficult or impossible, uncertainty
allowed into the room.                                 regarding the required documentation).

7.3    How do I find the right RDC for my qual-
       itative data?

In Germany, the Council for Social and Economic
Data is a central body for the accreditation of re-
search data centers. A total of seven RDCs are cur-
rently accredited and have specialized in different
qualitative data types:

  \\    Research Data Center for Business and Or-
        ganizational Data (RDC-BO)
  \\    Research Data Centre for Education (RDC
        Bildung) at DIPF
  \\    Forschungsdatenzentrum    Archiv        für
        Gesprochenes Deutsch am Institut für Deut-
        sche Sprache (RDC-AGD)
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8     Conclusion

Heterogeneous data collections of various kinds          been established in Germany over the past ten
are possible these days, using digital photo or film     years, which, in addition to (providing opportuni-
cameras, digital sound recording devices and / or        ties for the) reuse of research data often also offer
through digital research on the computer. Older          advice about research data management.
data sets, e.g., historical ethnological material col-
lections or film recordings, can be photographed or      Technical innovations and the growing accessi-
transferred to new, digital formats, old texts can be    bility of advice about research data management
scanned and then searched for using digital tools.       improve the ways that data are archived and can
Digital and digitized data and materials can thus be     be re-used. This is also the case for qualitative
made reusable to a large extent.                         research data. At the same time, research data
                                                         infrastructures have transformed the originally
Against this background, and in the context of           often snubbed act of long-term archiving into a
mandatory long-term archiving, the (provision            promising endeavor for the research communi-
of opportunities for the) reuse of research data is      ty: by preparing and publishing often laboriously
also becoming increasingly relevant. This devel-         collected data corpora, both primary researchers
opment can be seen to harbor promising poten-            (additional attention) and subsequent users (as
tial for digital, modern research methods and data.      new data collection can be (partially) avoided) as
This assessment is mirrored in the initiative for the    well as the entire research community (sustain-
development of a national research data infrastruc-      ability) can benefit. Against this background, we
ture (NFDI) by the federal and state governments,        hope to have made a practical contribution with
which is currently being implemented by the Joint        this primer, which helps qualitative researchers
Science Conference (GWK) and the German Re-              understand the prerequisites, options and the po-
search Foundation (DFG). In addition, research           tential of opening up and sharing data generated
data infrastructures and research data centers have      in their research.

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