Insights from Interviews with Researchers and Curators

Abstract

This chapter discusses insights drawn from my interviews with qualitative researchers, big social researchers, and data curators, focusing on similarities and differences between communities of practice, and discussing implications for data curation. The initial discussion is organized around the six key issues that have structured this book—context, data quality and trustworthiness, data comparability, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and intellectual property and data ownership. I then discuss new ideas that emerged from the interviews about domain differences, strategies for responsible practice, and perceptions on data curation and sharing. The chapter concludes with a discussion of implications for data curation practice.