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Scaling Up: How Data Curation Can Help Address Key Issues in Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research

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Authors:
  1. Sara Mannheimer

    1. Montana State University, Bozeman, USA

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  • Identifies six key issues that are held in common between qualitative data reuse and big social research
  • Presents the results of interviews with three communities of practice who work with social research and social data
  • Explains how researchers can use the information provided to responsibly scale up their research practices

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 1-8

  3. Theoretical Approach, Methods, and Definitions

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 9-23

  4. Qualitative Data Reuse in Practice

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 25-45

  5. Big Social Research in Practice

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 47-72

  6. Comparison of Issues and Data Curation Strategies

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 73-83

  7. Researchers and Data Curators Respond to Key Issues

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 85-119

  8. Insights from Interviews with Researchers and Curators

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 121-133

  9. Scaling Up Responsibly: Connecting Communities of Practice

    • Sara Mannheimer
    Pages 135-142
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About this book

This book explores the connections between qualitative data reuse, big social research, and data curation. A review of existing literature identifies the key issues of context, data quality and trustworthiness, data comparability, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and intellectual property and data ownership. Through interviews of qualitative researchers, big social researchers, and data curators, the author further examines each key issue and produces new insights about how domain differences affect each community of practice’s viewpoints, different strategies that researchers and curators use to ensure responsible practice, and different perspectives on data curation. The book suggests that encouraging connections between qualitative researchers, big social researchers, and data curators can support responsible scaling up of social research, thus enhancing discoveries in social and behavioral science.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Montana State University, Bozeman, USA

    Sara Mannheimer

About the author

Sara Mannheimer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Data Librarian at Montana State University. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Bard College, her MS in Information Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Humboldt University of Berlin. In her work as a librarian, she helps shape practices and theories for curation, sharing, discovery, and preservation of data. Her research examines the social, ethical, and technical issues of a data-driven world. She is currently the project director of the IMLS-funded Responsible AI project, which produces ethical decision-making resources for librarians and archivists who engage with artificial intelligence.

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