This workshop will provide an overview of qualitative data and how to manage it for research. It will highlight the resources available for MIT researchers via the library's membership with the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)*.

Specifically, this workshop will address:

• What is qualitative data and how to manage it for research.
• Specific tips for managing files (organizing, naming, etc.).
• How to work with IRBs, De-identification methods, access controls.
• General tips for archival research and field research (not to be missed before your field research begins!).
• Accessing, reusing, and citing published qualitative data.
• Templates and other educational resources available on QDR.
• A hands-on exercise where you draft your own data management and sharing plan (DMSP).

For further resources: https://libraries.mit.edu/data-management/share/find-repository/qdr-at-mit/

The workshop will be run by Dessi Kirilova, Associate Director of Qualitative Data Repository.

This is a hybrid event. In person location is E53-212.  Please register to receive the link to attend via zoom.

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*Established in 2014, Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is funded by the National Science Foundation as an archive for storing or sharing data generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research often by researchers in the social and health sciences, law, education, and the humanities fields.