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Replicability and comprehensibility of social research and its technical implementation
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Abstract "This paper is a contribution to the methodological and technical discussion of social research infrastructure. The main question is how to store and manage data in a way that meets the increasing demand for secondary data analysis in both quantitative and qualitative social science research. The fi... view more
"This paper is a contribution to the methodological and technical discussion of social research infrastructure. The main question is how to store and manage data in a way that meets the increasing demand for secondary data analysis in both quantitative and qualitative social science research. The first two sections focus mainly on aspects of data documentation, in particular on the unification of various documentation requirements that have arisen across ongoing projects of the SFB 882. While the aim of documenting quantitative research processes is to ensure replicability, the aim of documenting qualitative projects is to maintain the understandability and informative value of research data. In the third section a virtual research environment (VRE) is presented that provides both a generic work platform and a project-specific research platform. The work platform bundles IT resources by bringing together various tools for administration, project management, and time- and location-independent collaboration in a single environment adapted to researchers' specific work processes. The research component combines data management with further developments in social science methodologies. It provides services for the archiving and reuse of data and enables the infrastructural and methodological coordination of data documentation. We also introduce a documentation scheme for qualitative and quantitative social research within the SFB 882. This scheme considers the specific requirements of research projects within the SFB, such as different methods (e.g. panel analysis, experimental approaches, ethnography, and interview research), project work, and requirements of longterm research." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
reflexivity; data; documentation; quantitative method; qualitative method; research; information and documentation; social research; social science; methodology; data bank; science; humanities
Classification
Research, Research Organization
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
27 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 219
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75356
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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