Strategies of data archiving for cultural anthropology

至少在过去的二十年里，定性社会科学界一直在争论数据可以以及应该如何共享。最近美国国家科学基金会对数据管理计划的要求重新引发了这些讨论，并导致学者们重新思考保存和共享原始数据的策略，而不是仅仅通过发表综合结果来传播发现。此外，当许多人类学家考虑将四十多年前开始的研究数据存档时，人类学学科已经到了一个生命周期阶段。来自这些纵向研究的数据为该学科提供了宝贵的资源，既可以作为历史文献，也可以作为理解随时间变化的基础数据。为了建立一个真正的21世纪人类学学科，建立一个保存数据和促进学者之间共享的档案系统，同时保护机密性和研究参与者，已经成为迫切需要。在这个项目中，Lisa Cliggett博士（肯塔基大学）通过开发一个数字档案来解决这一需求，该档案将作为构建一个专门为文化人类学设计的数据存档、元数据文档和数据共享系统的原型。Cliggett将使用她自己从g温贝汤加研究项目（GTRP）获得的纵向数据来创建原型，这将立即促进Elizabeth Colson、Thayer Scudder和相关研究人员收集的60多年GTRP数据的有用存档，同时也有利于未来的GTRP研究。Cliggett的档案系统将被其他定性社会科学和人文社区的人设计成适合他们自己的项目。项目成果包括：1)GTRP数据档案的原型数字存储库，其他学者可以根据自己的需要进行调整；2)定性数据归档的工作流程指南3)项目网站，发布详细的归档过程和其他相关信息；4)美国人类学协会定性数据归档会议。

The qualitative social science community has been engaged in debate about how data can and should be shared for at least the past two decades. The recent NSF requirement for data management plans has reignited these discussions and caused scholars to rethink strategies for preserving and sharing primary data, rather than disseminating findings through publication of synthesized results alone. Additionally, the discipline of anthropology has reached a life cycle stage when many anthropologists may consider archiving their data from studies begun forty or more years ago. Data from these longitudinal studies form a valuable resource for the discipline both as historical documents and as primary data that can serve as a basis for understanding of change over time. Creating systems of archiving that preserve data and facilitate sharing among scholars, while simultaneously protecting confidentiality and study participants, has become an urgent need for establishing a truly 21st century anthropological discipline.In this project, Dr. Lisa Cliggett (University of Kentucky) addresses this need by developing a digital archive that will serve as a prototype for building a system of data archiving, metadata documentation, and data sharing designed specifically for cultural anthropology. Cliggett will use her own longitudinal data from the Gwembe Tonga Research Project (GTRP) to create the prototype, which will immediately facilitate the useful archiving of more than sixty years of GTRP data collected by Elizabeth Colson, Thayer Scudder, and associated researchers, while also benefiting future GTRP research. Cliggett's archiving system will be designed to be adapted by others in the qualitative social sciences and humanities communities for their own projects. Outcomes of the project include: 1) A prototype digital repository for the GTRP data archive, which other scholars can adapt for their own needs; 2) A Work Flow guide for qualitative data archiving 3) A project web site to disseminate details about the archiving process and other related information; 4) An American Anthropological Association meeting session about qualitative data archiving.