A new article in the journal Quality and Quantity describes how archived qualitative data creates opportunities for combining datasets to create a corpus of 'big qual' data. The authors describe their approach to combining and analysing multiple qualitative datasets.
See: Davidson, E., Edwards, R., Jamieson, L. et al. Qual Quant (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-018-0757-y
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Mathematics teachers participating in Lesson Study: two case study sites
The Irish Qualitative Data Archive is pleased to announce that the collection 'Mathematics teachers participating in Lesson Study: two case study sites' is now available to access through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Date: Thursday, 22 February 2024
A Cognitive Occupation Based programme for People with Multiple Sclerosis qualitative feasibility data
The Irish Qualitative Data Archive is pleased to announce that the collection 'A Cognitive Occupation Based programme for People with Multiple Sclerosis qualitative feasibility data' is now available to access through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Date: Monday, 06 November 2023
Access to Information and Communications Technology by minority groups and persons with disabilities
The data collection 'Access to Information and Communications Technology by minority groups and persons with disabilities' is now available through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2023
‘Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th’ project
The Digital Repository of Ireland is celebrating the launch of a new project that will provide long-term preservation and access to at-risk materials generated by the women’s reproductive health movement during the campaign in the approach to the 2018 referendum on the 8th Amendment.
Date: Thursday, 28 May 2020
RACcER collection now available in the Digital Repository of Ireland
The data collection 'Re-use and Archiving of Complex Community-Based Evaluation Research (RACcER)' is now available through the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
New book on Qualitative Secondary Analysis
New book on Qualitative Secondary Analysis, edited by Kahyrn Hughes and Anna Tarrant, published by Sage (December 2019).
Date: Monday, 18 November 2019
New blog post on the Family Rhythms study
Jane Gray contributed a guest post to the 'Working Across Qualitative Lontigudinal Studies' blog, on bringing together qualitative longitudinal datasets with different temporal gazes.
Date: Friday, 15 February 2019
Upcoming DRI Event: Briefing on EC's Report on FAIR Data
DRI Director Natalie Harrower will deliver a lunchtime briefing on the recently published EC report on FAIR data, on Tuesday 26 February in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2019
New collection: Preparing for Life
IQDA is pleased to announce that a collection of qualitative interviews carried out as part of the Preparing for Life Programme has been deposited in the archive and published in the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2019
New article on archived data and 'big qualitative' analysis
A new article in the journal Quality and Quantity highlights the potential that archiving creates for 'big qual' data analysis.
Date: Tuesday, 01 May 2018