Anonymized interview transcripts from the study "Information Scientists' Motivations for Research Data Sharing and Reuse"

These are eleven transcripts of the interviews conducted in the context of the study “Information Scientists’ Motivations for Research Data Sharing and Reuse”.

Interview partners are information science researchers who work with data and shared (or not) their research data and/or reused (or not) the data from third parties. Study sample included six women and five men working either at a German university and/or a research performing organization with working experience as researchers from six to over 40 years. Nine persons have a PhD degree, two persons are the PhD candidates. One researcher belongs to the Net Generation (i.e. born approx. between 1946 and 1960), three researchers – to Generation X (i.e. born approx. 1960 and 1980), seven researchers – to Generation Y (i.e. born approx. between 1980 and 1996).

Data collection took place between October, 13 and November, 24 2022. The interviews were conducted in German, online and video-recorded. The shortest conversation took 43 minutes and the longest – 63 minutes. With participants’ consent, all interviews were transcribed using f4x Automatic Speech Recognition. The automatically created transcripts were then manually checked and corrected if needed.

The interview transcripts are anonymized by replacing original words or phrases with more generic words or phrases. The replaced texts are marked in blue and taken in brackets. The access to the anonymized transcripts will be granted on request with concrete agreement on use.

The interview guide template used for conducting the interviews is available. For more information about study design and results, please visit the project page and/or read the article "Information Scientists' Motivations for Research Data Sharing and Reuse" by Shutsko and Stock (2023).