Preparing, curating and describing qualitative research data – the RDC Qualiservice approach

The presentation describes Qualiservice's approach to collaborative data preparation and data curation along the workflow for archiving and preparing qualitative text data at the research data centre. Collaborative data preparation, curation and the description of data sets with metadata are explicitly highlighted as workflow areas in the presentation. 

The presentation was held online on 10 September 2025 in the context of the International Secure Data Facility Professionals Network (ISDFPN), coordinated by the UK data service. For more information regarding the network please see: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/about/research-and-development/international-secure-data-facility-professionals-network-isdfpn/