Text, Sound and Videotape: The Future of Qualitative Data in the Global Network

IASSIST Quarterly Abstract We are currently seeing a new culture emerging in the social sciences, of a new form of secondary analysis that of primary qualitative data. It has come about largely as a result of the moves by British social science funding organisations towards formalising archiving policies of data created in the course of research they fund. Funders want added value from research and believe in sustaining a solid research base for the future, in the form of the preservation of empirical findings. Now, this includes qualitative data in addition to quantitative.