{"id":359,"date":"2017-04-12T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/?p=359"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:17:48","slug":"sharing-qualitative-data-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/2017\/04\/12\/sharing-qualitative-data-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Qualitative Data Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 5 April we invited Libby Bishop<\/a> to give a workshop on how to share qualitative data. Libby is well known in the Research Data Management (RDM) world as the Manager for Producer\u00a0Relations at the UK Data Archive<\/a> (University of Essex) although she introduced herself as a “maverick social science researcher”.<\/p>\n

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Libby explaining the workshop plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Why have a workshop on sharing qualitative data?<\/h4>\n

The short answer is: because it is difficult! If we look at the datasets deposited in our Lancaster Research Directory<\/a> (currently about 150) you will find very few qualitative datasets. The reason for that is that there are many challenges in sharing this type of data. Which is why we invited expert advice from Libby.<\/p>\n

Workshop Highlights<\/h2>\n

Firstly, you can have a look at Libby’s slides below but I would like to highlight a few things that were especially of interest to me further on.<\/p>\n