Qualitative Data Reuse in Practice

This chapter provides an overview of the history and benefits of qualitative data reuse, then explores six key issues in qualitative data reuse—context, data quality and trustworthiness, data comparability, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and intellectual property and data ownership. The chapter then outlines data curation implications of these issues, including data curation practices that could help alleviate some aspects of the issues.