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标题：A Proposal for Archiving Context for Secondary Analysis
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作者：Libby Bishop
期刊名称：Methodological Innovations
印刷版ISSN：2059-7991
电子版ISSN：2059-7991
出版年度：2006
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：10-20
DOI：10.4256/mio.2006.0008
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：This paper seeks to provide a framework for thinking about context for secondary analysis, and to suggest minimal guidelines for providing context for qualitative research to enable its reuse. It addresses the challenge of what recontextualisation of qualitative data looks like in detail and in practice. In the first section, we lay out a framework for thinking about context that entails looking in two dimensions: multiple levels of granularity and across time. The first dimension includes the levels of interaction, situation (setting and project) and culture/institutional. The longitudinal dimension highlights the temporal nature of contexts: there is context at the time of the original research and the context at the time of reuse. The later sections of the paper propose specific suggestions for what information should be included when researchers seek to provide context when depositing data for later use in secondary analysis. Our goal is to propose guidelines that are minimally burdensome to researchers preserving their materials (with ESDS Qualidata or elsewhere) while simultaneously being maximally helpful to researchers seeking to reuse data. Our recommendations are—as they must be—a conditional specification of context specific to data archiving and not a generic prescription.