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

Springer, 2024. — 146 p.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.Acknowledgements
Introduction
Theoretical Approach, Methods, and Definitions
Qualitative Data Reuse in Practice
Big Social Research in Practice
Comparison of Issues and Data Curation Strategies
Researchers and Data Curators Respond to Key Issues
Insights from Interviews with Researchers and Curators
Scaling Up Responsibly: Connecting Communities of Practice