Archiving qualitative data: Infrastructure, acquisition, documentation, distribution. experiences from WISDOM, the Austrian data archive

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Smioski, Andrea ^a  

^a WISDOM   (Austria)

Author keywords

Archiving; Data acquisition; Data documentation; Establishment of an archive for qualitative data; Qualitative data; Secondary analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053487655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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