Daftar Isi: Women Pioneers in Canadian Sociology: A Case Study for Qualitative Research Data Management, Sharing and Re-Use

Daftar Isi:

The University of Toronto's Map Data Library, Information Technology Services (ITS) and T-Space (University of Toronto's Research Repository) are working collaboratively to preserve and facilitate future access to Margaret Eichler's (Professor, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto) primary research data, conducting in the mid-1980s. The original research data consists of 30 interviews with, then, leading pioneers in Canadian Sociology, all born before 1930. This presentation will address the value for curating qualitative research data, especially for future secondary analysis. A data management plan specific to qualitative interview data will also be developed and presented based on a life-cycle approach to data. Information technology solutions for data preservation and access will be addressed. Furthermore, since anonymity takes away potential richness of this particular qualitative dataset, special attention will be also given to solving special privacy and security concerns and how they relate to provision of access to future researchers, whilst complying with university ethics regulations. The main objective of this proposal is to therefore address qualitative research data management issues as well as to unveil the future access and re-use benefits for researchers.