Workshop on Qualitative Data Repository

该提案寻求资金，于2009年4月在锡拉丘兹大学麦克斯韦尔学院举办一个研讨会，将从事政治学定性研究的学者聚集在一起。研讨会的目标是开始发展实践，使这些学者能够将他们的数据存档，以便其他学者可以进行分析。大约13名高级学者将与6至8名初级学者或研究生一起开展档案实践。要考虑的主题包括人类主题问题，处理不同类型的定性数据，对如何进行定性研究归档的影响，以及在上传、存储和访问数据方面使用信息技术。6至8名初级学者或研究生将在研讨会后的一年内收集定性数据。在研讨会上资深学者的参与下，他们将在此期间在麦克斯韦尔学院的档案库中存档他们的数据。这项活动将提供模型，鼓励其他学者存档他们的数据。此外，他们将为在研讨会上开发的存档实践提供一个beta测试。这个项目更广泛的影响包括建立一个系统化的定性数据储存库，从而使其他学者能够以易于使用的形式获得这些数据。

This proposal seeks funding to stage a workshop at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University in April 2009 to bring together scholars who conduct qualitative research in political science. The goal of the workshop is to begin to develop practices to allow such scholars to archive their data in order that it will be available to other scholars to analyze. Approximately 13 senior scholars will join 6 to 8 junior scholars or graduate students in the development of archiving practices. Topics to be considered include human subject concerns, dealing different types of qualitative data, the impact on archiving on how qualitative research is conducted, and the use of information technology on uploading, storing and accessing data.The 6 to 8 junior scholars or graduate students will be expected to collect qualitative data during the year following the workshop. With the input of senior scholars at the workshop, they will work during that period to archive their data at an archive at the Maxwell School. This activity will provide models with which to encourage other scholars to archive their data. In addition, they will provide a beta test for the archiving practices developed at the workshop.This project's broader impacts include the development of a systematic repository for qualtitative data, which would then make the data available to other scholars in readily usable forms.