- Audience: Researchers in any field within the social sciences and humanities
- Language of instruction: English
- Level: This workshop is suitable for all levels of existing understanding of data sharing. An understanding of fieldwork research processes will be beneficial.
About the Workshop
Field notes are the ‘raw data’ and/or essential contextualisation of data of several types of qualitative research in social sciences and humanities disciplines like archaeology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. They can vary from handwritten, completely unstructured text in a notebook, to manually or digitally filled out forms. What they have in common is that they form the context to interpret the original data (and in some cases they are the original data themselves). As such they are essential for research integrity and the verification of results. However, they are not often shared for various reasons.
In this workshop we will dive into these reasons and the pros and cons of sharing fieldwork data, and how to share them. Through case studies from various disciplines within the social sciences and humanities and input from trainers and participants we aim to establish best practices. We will cover the following topics: Why share (or not share) field notes, which notes could be shared (and which not), how to share them (e.g., in what format, on which platform), what metadata are needed for them to be understood.
This workshop is scheduled for 26 May 2025, between 13:15 and 17:00, at the Huizinga Building, Room 0.09, Doelensteeg 16, 2311 VL Leiden.
Programme outline
12.15-13.15 Walk-in, lunch available
13.15-13.45 Welcome and introduction to the topic
13.45-14.45 Case studies from different disciplines – brief presentations with time for questions.
14.45-15.15 Break with coffee/tea
15.15-16.15 Interactive session
16.15-17.00 Conclusions
Organisers
- Pascal Flohr, Leiden University
- Deborah Thorpe, DANS
- Michelle van den Berk, DANS
- Mayukha Bathini, Promovendi Netwerk Nederland
- Bora Lushaj, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University
Confirmed guest speakers and the main discipline they will focus on
- Anna Roodhof, Wageningen University – sociology
- Janneke Verheijen, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) – cultural antropology
Location
This workshop is hosted in the Digital Lab by the LUCDH, an interdisciplinary centre for computational approaches to Digital Humanities that brings together students and faculty from across the Leiden community. Please note that the lunch will take place not in the Digital Lab but in the Huizinga garden (weather allowing) or elsewhere in the Huizinga building (TBC).
Registration
Attendance at this workshop is free, though registration is required. Places are limited to 25 people so please register as early as possible. To register, please fill out the short registration form below. Once you have registered we will be in touch again with practical information in advance of the workshop.
If, having registered for the event, you cannot attend, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can reallocate your place.
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These workshops are part of a series organised by the project ‘Beyond personal data: a new initiative to support early-career researchers with hard-to-share data’ financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via the Thematic Digital Competence Centre Social Sciences & Humanities (TDCC-SSH). You can find out more about this project here.
