Geraghty, Ruth (2014) Attitudes to Qualitative Archiving in Ireland: Findings from a Consultation with the Irish Social Science Community. Studia Socjologiczne, 3. ISSN 0039−3371

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Although there is no specifi c requirement to archive social science data in Ireland, interest in and the practice of data archiving has been growing signifi cantly in recent years. This growth is somewhat facilitated by the establishment of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA) in 2008. Between 2009 and 2010, the IQDA consulted with social science researchers from leading academic institutions in Ireland and Northern Ireland for their opinions on archiving qualitative research and contextual data. Interview fi ndings indicate that, while researchers recognised many of the benefi ts of archiving, their concerns centre primarily around two areas; namely legal and ethical concerns with archiving, and epistemological concerns, thus refl ecting the dominant debates about archiving in the literature as identifi ed by Heaton (2008). The paper concludes by presenting some of the solutions that have been implemented by IQDA, which have since been incorporated into our cornerstone document, Best Practice in Archiving Qualitative Data (2010).

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	qualitative; archiving; ethics; best practice;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	6407
Depositing User:	Ruth Geraghty
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2015 16:20
Journal or Publication Title:	Studia Socjologiczne
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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