DATABASE QUALITATIVI PER LE SCIENZE SOCIALI

• NVivo, il Database qualitativo compatibile con Nudist http://www.scolari.co.uk/qsr/qsr_nvivo.htm

• L’archivio ceco di dati sociologici ( http://archiv.soc.cas.cz/ ) recentemente ha aperto una sezione qualitativa. Czech Archive of Qualitative Data and Documents: http://www.fss.muni.cz/qarchiv

• “Computer-aided Archiving of Qualitative Data with the Database System QBiQ” bySusann Kluge & Diane Opitz http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00klugeopitz-e.pdf

• Research Project del Nottingham Trent University-Museum of Law Partnership http://solon.ntu.ac.uk/research_project.htm#Qualitative%20Database

• “Digital Resources for Qualitative Data”. Da Edwardians online note metodologiche sui database qualitativi http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/edwardians/about/digital.asp  

• “XML Application for Qualitative Data”. Da Edwardians online note sull’uso del linguaggio XML nei database qualitativi.  http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/edwardians/about/xmlddi.asp

• Kelle, U. (1997) 'Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the Management of Textual Data' http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/2/1.html  

RIUTILIZZO DEI DATI QUALITATIVI

• “Secondary analysis of qualitative data” by Janet Heaton http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU22.html

• “Re-using Qualitative Research Data: a Personal Account” by Paul Thompson http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00thompson-e.pdf  

• “Re-Use of Life Stories in an Ethnomethodological Research” by Zdenek Konopasek and Zuzana Kusa http://www.cts.cuni.cz/~konopas/texty/re_use.htm

• “Archiving Longitudinal Data for Future Research: Why Qualitative Data Add to a Study’s Usefulness1)” by Jacquelyn B. James & Annemette Sørensen http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00jamessorensen-e.pdf

• “Making Qualitative Research Material Reusable: Case in Finland” by Arja Kuula http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq24/iqvol242kuula.pdf

DATI QUALITATIVI MULTIMEDIALI

1.     “Text, Sound and Videotape: The Future of Qualitative Data in the Global Network”  by Louise Corti http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq23/iqvol232corti.pdf

2.      'Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology' Lomax, H. and Casey, N. (1998). http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/2/1.html

3.      “Going Digital and Staying Qualitative: Some Alternative Strategies for Digitizing the Qualitative Research Process” by David Brown http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-02/2-02brown-e.pdf 

4.      “Tools for Digital Audio Recording in Qualitative Research” by Alan Stockdale http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU38.html

5.      Interclipper software - "for recording, streaming, marking, annotating, and organizing video and audio in real time" http://www.interclipper.com/

6.      Qualitative Media Analyzer software -  audio and video analysis  http://www.cvs.dk/qma.htm

7.      Transana. Free video analysis software http://www.transana.org/

8.      AnnoTape. Software per l’analisi qualitativa video. http://www.annotape.com/

9.      KIT. Qualitative Media Analyser. http://home14.inet.tele.dk/cvs/

10.  Kwalitan 5: A Support Program for the Analysis of Qualitative Material http://www.kwalitan.net/engels/index.html

11.  Video and Audio Media in Qualitative Research. Testo on-line sulla ricerca qualitativa multimediale. Autore  Don Ratcliff, Ph.D.  http://don.ratcliff.net/video/

ASPETTI LEGALI

• “Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Issues for Consideration in the Preservation of and Provision of Access to Qualitative Data Archives” by Louise Corti, Annette Day & Gill Backhouse. http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00cortietal-e.pdf  

• Legal and Ethical Issues in Interviewing. Da Qualidata. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/creatingData/guidelines.asp  

• Legal and Ethical Issues in Interviewing Children. Da Qualidata. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/creatingData/guidelineschildren.asp

•  Legal and Ethical Issues in Interviewing People with Learning Difficulties Contents. Da Qualidata. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/creatingData/guidelineslearningdifficulty.asp  

• “Signing your life away?: Why Research Ethics Committees (REC) shouldn't always require written confirmation that participants in research have been informed of the aims of a study and their rights - the case of criminal populations” by Coomber, Ross http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/1/coomber.html (disponibile tramite richiesta)

MISCELLANEA

1.      The IASSIST QUARTERLY represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services. The QUARTERLY reports on activities related to the production, acquisition, preservation, processing, distribution, and use of machine-readable data carried out by its members and others in the international social science community. http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/iq24/iqvol242.pdf 

2.      “The Qualitative Report” un giornale online dedicato alla ricerca qualitativa della Nova Southeastern University http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html

3.      Qualitative Research Journals Links. Una sezione di link molto fornita http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/calls.html

4.      Il webring della ricerca qualitativa. Raccoglie un gran numero di link a siti dedicati alla ricerca qualitativa, con brevi descrizioni. http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=QualitativeResearch;action=list

5.      Social Research Update. Pubblicato dal Department of Sociology della University of Surrey. E’ una collezione di articoli online che trattano tematiche, sia tecniche che metodologiche, legate alla ricerca sociologica qualitativa. http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/ .

6.      Il Forum della Ricerca Qualitativa. Giornale on-line e web-community di ricercatori qualitativi con forum di discussione, newsletters, etc.  http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm

7.      Il Portale dell’Analisi Qualitativa. Il Portale è una iniziativa promossa e diretta da Orazio Maria Valastro. Contiene una buona sezione di link ad articoli, riviste, associazioni ed enti impegnati nella ricerca. http://www.analisiqualitativa.com/portale.htm

8.      Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Sito dedicato all’analisi con computer di dati qualitativi. Recensioni, guide, versioni demo scaricabili, etc http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/

9.      Qualitative Research. Ottima lista di link. http://www.prnavigator.com/Qualitative%20Methods.htm

QUALIDATA

L’archivio Qualidata rende disponibili una molteplicità di risorse on-line.

• Edwardians Online è una raccolta di dati qualitativi riguardanti la famiglia ed il mondo del lavoro in inghilterrra. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/edwardians/about/introduction.asp
• All’u.r.l. http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/dataResources/themes.asp è possibile trovare le raccolte tematiche di dati sui temi “criminologia”, “storia della salute”e “storia orale”

FORUM FOR QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH  

http://www.qualitative-research.net e’ la principale community on-line per la ricerca qualitativa.

Offre forum di dibattito, newsletters, recensioni, etc. Ma l’elemento più interessante sono le FQS issues, riviste monotematiche dedicate alla ricerca. Sono scaricabili, ma solo articolo per articolo, al link http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm

Sono disponibili su FQSISSUE i volumi 1(3) [“Text . Archive . Re-Analysis”] e 3 (2) [“Using Technology in the Qualitative Research Process”] . Per facilitare la consultazione nelle cartelle FQSissue1 e FQSissue3 si trovano subito gli abstracts degli articoli, anche se poi la stessa pagina appare anche nella struttura ad albero delle sottocartelle con il titolo per esteso.