I would be interested in making contact with anyone who has done a
grounded theory analysis using existing data sets. You can reply
directly to me if you like or to the list. Thanks, Claudia Downing
On Mon,
1 Nov 1999, Corti, Louise wrote:
> This is an issue qualidata has been addressing ovr the past couple of years.
> I gave a seminar on this at the CAQDAS group at Surrey in June of this year
> and a set of guidliens relating to archiving are in draft at the moment.
>
> In terms of retaining qualitaive materials for future re-use, we have
> guidelines on the form and content of what materials over and above the raw
> text might be useful.
>
> Raw data and accompanying textual documentation should be reduced to its
> simplest form, i.e. ASCII text, without line breaks. These should be
> anoymised where appropriate; contain Interviewer and Respondent markers; be
> single spaced with a single line between paragraphs; be on High Density
> Diskette which is DOS compatible; and be 'external' files, rather than
> programme-specific or 'internal' files. With regard to images, Tiff4
> format is still the current standard.
>
> A key to detailed jargon is also very helpful and we think that it would be
> particularly useful to have a 'running' reflective and technical memo.
> Where teams are working on a project this kind of memoing if often carried
> out quite routinely but it does raises the problem of what and how much to
> keep. Since we would not wish to archive every memo, an edited version
> would be preferable. This would mean effort would have to put into editing
> such memos to produce something suitable and useful for archiving.
>
> Files should have common attributes such that this meta data would enable
> future researchers to make sense of a project's machine-readable files, once
> the depositor is no longer around. For example each file needs to be
> meaningfully named and there need to be a uers guide to the content of the
> files. a guide to hthe files. We also require a basic interview summary
> sheet containing biographical information, e.g. Gender, Age, date of
> interview, region. employment status and any other significant variables,
> which should alos be in ASCII format (or rtf). Qualidata have pro-formas for
> these.
>
> The major problem we see with CAQDAS produced data and output is what to do
> with the set of fully coded data and other files in programme-specific
> format. How useful is it to preserve internal files? How can we generate
> useful coherent documents from hypertext which have a complex structure and
> pathways of linked memos and codes to text. Are outputs of search and
> retrieve operations useful? Since some of the CAQADS programmes around
> today may be obsolete in a couple of years time, archiving of the raw data
> and other files in programme-specific format may not be useful.
>
> I know that have been moves to work towards a common exportable format from
> many of the major softwares, and this would be very useful for archival
> purposes. One would expect lists of retrievals not to be generally useful
> for future researchers except in the case of large transcripts, such as oral
> histroy interviews when navigating your way around such a huge bulk of
> material might be extremely time consuming.
>
>
> We would welcome comments on of these points before we finalise and
> circulate our own guidelines.
>
> Louise Corti
> Manager, Qualidata
> Department of Sociology
> University of Essex
> Colchester CO4 3SQ
> UK
>
> + 44 1206 873058
>
> email: [log in to unmask]
> url: <www/essex.ac.uk/qualidata/>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anna Triandafyllidou [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 11:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: CAQDAS and secondary analysis of qual.data
>
>
> I just finished reading Barry's article on Soc.Res.Online and also some
> shorter articles suggested previously in the list, namely Walsh and Lavalli
> Microtimes, TaggOram articles and have been also visiting Social Research
> Update at Surrey University website.
> I think Barry's analysis is as much distanced from her own preferences as
> one could expect and very informative. I find Walsh and Lavalli's article
> very informative and concise too. The same goes for the brief but
> informative and concise contributions appearing in SRU. Congrats and thanks
> to all contributors/authors!
> I would like to invite fellow list discussants to reflect on the
> relationship between the use of such software and what is called secondary
> analysis of qualitative data. Maybe the need/possibility of storing and
> organising data in a way that they can be used later for secondary analysis
> offers a new dimension for evaluating the software and a new concern for
> software developpers?!
>
> Best,
> Anna Triandafyllidou
>
>
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