QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

QUALITATIVE DATABASES FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

• NVivo, the  qualitative Database compatible with Nudist http://www.scolari.co.uk/qsr/qsr_nvivo.htm

• The sociological data archive of Czech Republic ( http://archiv.soc.cas.cz/ ) has opened a qualitative section. Czech Archive of Qualitative Data and Documents: http://www.fss.muni.cz/qarchiv

• “Computer-aided Archiving of Qualitative Data with the Database System QBiQ” by Susann Kluge & Diane Opitz http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00klugeopitz-e.pdf

• Research Project of Nottingham Trent University-Museum of Law Partnership http://solon.ntu.ac.uk/research_project.htm#Qualitative%20Database

• “Digital Resources for Qualitative Data”. Methodological notes by Edwardians online about qualitative database http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/edwardians/about/digital.asp  

• “XML Application for Qualitative Data”. Notes about use of language XML by Edwardians online in the qualitative database.  http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/edwardians/about/xmlddi.asp

• Kelle, U. (1997) 'Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the Management of Textual Data' http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/2/1.html  

RE-USE OF QUALITATIVE DATA

• “Secondary analysis of qualitative data” by Janet Heaton http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU22.html

• “Re-using Qualitative Research Data: a Personal Account” by Paul Thompson http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00thompson-e.pdf  

• “Re-Use of Life Stories in an Ethno-methodological Research” by Zdenek Konopasek and Zuzana Kusa

      http://www.cts.cuni.cz/~konopas/texty/re_use.htm

• “Archiving Longitudinal Data for Future Research: Why Qualitative Data Add to a Study’s Usefulness” by Jacquelyn B. James & Annemette Sørensen

      http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00jamessorensen-e.pdf

• “Making Qualitative Research Material Reusable: Case in Finland” by Arja Kuula http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq24/iqvol242kuula.pdf

MULTIMEDIAL QUALITATIVE DATA

1.     “Text, Sound and Videotape: The Future of Qualitative Data in the Global Network”  by   

        Louise Corti http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq23/iqvol232corti.pdf

2.     'Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology' Lomax, H. and Casey, N. (1998).

         http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/2/1.html

3.      “Going Digital and Staying Qualitative: Some Alternative Strategies for Digitizing the

         Qualitative Research Process” by David Brown

         http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-02/2-02brown-e.pdf 

4.      “Tools for Digital Audio Recording in Qualitative Research” by Alan Stockdale  

         http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU38.html

5.      Interclipper software - "for recording, streaming, marking, annotating, and organizing video

         and audio in real time" http://www.interclipper.com/

6.      Qualitative Media Analyzer software -  audio and video analysis  http://www.cvs.dk/qma.htm

7.      Transana. Free video analysis software http://www.transana.org/

8.      AnnoTape. Software per l’analisi qualitativa video. http://www.annotape.com/

9.      KIT. Qualitative Media Analyser. http://home14.inet.tele.dk/cvs/

10.    Kwalitan 5: A Support Program for the Analysis of Qualitative Material

         http://www.kwalitan.net/engels/index.html

11.    Video and Audio Media in Qualitative research. On-line text about multimedial qualitative 

         research. Author  Don Ratcliff, Ph.D.

         http://don.ratcliff.net/video/

LEGAL ASPECTS

• “Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Issues for Consideration in the Preservation of and Provision of Access to Qualitative Data Archives” by Louise Corti, Annette Day & Gill Backhouse.

      http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00cortietal-e.pdf  

• Legal and Ethical Issues in Interviewing by Qualidata. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/creatingData/guidelines.asp   

• Legal and Ethical Issues in Interviewing Children by Qualidata. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/creatingData/guidelineschildren.asp

•  Legal and Ethical Issues in Interviewing People with Learning Difficulties Contents by Qualidata.

      http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/creatingData/guidelineslearningdifficulty.asp  

• “Signing your life away?: Why Research Ethics Committees (REC) shouldn't always require written confirmation that participants in research have been informed of the aims of a study and their rights - the case of criminal populations” by Coomber, Ross http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/1/coomber.html (available on authorisation)

OTHER DOCUMENTS

1. The IASSIST QUARTERLY represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services. The QUARTERLY reports on activities related to the production, acquisition, preservation, processing, distribution, and use of machine-readable data carried out by its members and others in the international social science community. http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq24/iqvol242.pdf 
2. “The Qualitative Report” is an online journal about the qualitative research of Nova Southeastern University

      http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html

3. Qualitative Research Journals Links.

      http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/calls.html

4. A collection of a great number of links to web pages about the qualitative research, with a short description.

      http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=QualitativeResearch;action=list

5. Social Research Update. Published by Department of Sociology of University of Surrey. It is a collection of online articles about methodological and technical themes regarding sociological  qualitative research.

      http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/ .

6. The  forum of qualitative research. An on-line journal and a web-community of qualitative researchers with a forum of discussion, newsletters, etc. 

      http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm

7. The qualitative analysis webpage. This page is an iniziative from Orazio Maria Valastro. It  contains a good  section of links and articles, journals, associations  and institutions engaged in the research.

      http://www.analisiqualitativa.com/portale.htm

8. Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Web page dedicated to analysis through the computer about qualitative data. Recensions, guides, demo versions for download, etc

      http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/

9. Qualitative Research. A good  list of links. http://www.prnavigator.com/Qualitative%20Methods.htm

QUALIDATA 

Qualidata archive make available a variety of on-line resources.

• Edwardians Online is a collection of qualitative data about the family and labour world in UK.

      http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/edwardians/about/introduction.asp

• On link http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/dataResources/themes.asp it can be found the thematic collections of data about “criminology”, “health history” and “oral history”.

FORUM FOR QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH 

http://www.qualitative-research.net is the main on-line community for the qualitative research.

It offers forum of debate, newsletters, journals, and similar but the most interesting elements are the FQS issues, monothematic journals dedicated to the research. Only the single articles can be downloaded at the following link http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm

It is available on FQSISSUE the volumes 1(3) [“Text . Archive . Re-Analysis”] e 3 (2) [“Using Technology in the Qualitative Research Process”] . To facilitate the consultation in the directories FQSissue1 e FQSissue3 there are the abstracts of the articles.