Standard: RR - The Ethics of Archiving and Reusing Qualitative Data: Guidelines for Practice

这一研讨会将通过制定定性数据的归档、共享和再利用的指导方针来推动学术研究。通过重点制定对公开定性数据所涉及的伦理和认识论问题敏感的指导方针，讲习班将超越侧重于定性研究和定量研究之间的对比的辩论。这些指南将为定性研究人员(研究生、资深学者、政策分析师、项目和计划工作人员)、IRBs和其他负责监督定性研究道德行为的机构提供实用资源。此外，它们将引起学院以外的研究人员和利益相关者的兴趣，包括非政府组织、非营利机构和资助机构。在要求社会研究工作透明化的呼声日益高涨之际，将定性数据公之于众已成为当务之急。对这一呼吁的回应可能最容易由研究人员完成，他们的大量量化数据集可以匿名，并且当同意似乎是直接的，或者这些数据已经在公共领域。本次研讨会将集中讨论归档、定性查询以及定量数据归档、共享和再利用的可转移性的伦理挑战。对知情同意和保密的伦理关切以及作为解释性研究方法基础的认知假设敏感的多学科研讨会参与者小组将制定公布定性数据的准则草案。一旦指南最终确定，它们将被分发给学术和研究社区的成员、组织、资助者和期刊编辑。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop that will advance scholarly research by developing guidelines for the archiving, sharing, and reuse of qualitative data. By focusing on the development of guidelines that are sensitive to the ethical and epistemological concerns entailed in making qualitative data public, the workshop will move beyond debates focused on the contrasts between qualitative and quantitative research. These guidelines will offer a practical resource for use by qualitative researchers (graduate students, senior scholars, policy analysts, and project and program staff), IRBs, and other institutional bodies charged with oversight regarding the ethical conduct of qualitative research. In addition, they will be of interest to researchers and stakeholders beyond the academy, including NGOs, not-for-profit agencies, and funding institutions. Making qualitative data publically available has become salient at a time when there are increasing calls for transparency in the conduct of social research. Responding to this call may be most readily accomplished by researchers whose large quantitative data sets can be anonymized and when consent appears to be either straightforward, or these data are already in the public domain. This workshop will focus on the ethical challenges of archiving qualitative inquiry and the transferability of quantitative data archiving, sharing, and reuse. A multidisciplinary group of workshop participants who are sensitive to ethical concerns of informed consent and preserving confidentiality, as well as on the epistemic assumptions that underlie interpretive research methods will develop draft guidelines for making qualitative data public. Once the guidelines are finalized they will be disseminated to members of academic and research communities, organizations, funders, and journal editors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.