Re-using Qualitative Data: A Little Evidence, On-going Issues and Modest Reflections
Re-using Qualitative Data: A Little Evidence, On-going Issues and Modest Reflections

Summary/Abstract: This paper uses the occasion of the founding of the Archives of Qualitative Data at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in the Polish Academy of Sciences to consider the subject of re-using qualitative data. Drawing on limited, but still useful research about the UK Data Archive, I will consider what we know about how archived qualitative data are being used. Then I will briefly review several methodological and ethical debates that continue to be vigorously discussed. I close the paper with some reflections on where we have been, some lessons that might be useful for new archives, and speculations for the future.

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