Researchers and Data Curators Respond to Key Issues

This chapter reviews the results of semi-structured interviews with participants from three communities of practice: qualitative researchers who have shared or reused data, big social researchers, and data curators. By speaking directly to participants about their experiences and concerns, I aim to build conclusions about the similarities and differences in how each community of practice addresses the issues of context, data quality and trustworthiness, data comparability, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and intellectual property and data ownership. In this chapter, I also identify three new themes relevant to qualitative data reuse, big social research, and data curation: domain differences, strategies for responsible practice, and perspectives on data curation and data sharing.