Title in the Original Language and English, If Different

Qualitative Data Repository (QDR), Center for Qualitative and Multi Method Inquiry (CQMI), Syracuse University

Project Proposal Form[*]

Please answer each question below. Contact QDR with any questions you have(). When you have filled out the form completely, please give it the following file name – “QDR –Project Proposal Form- YOURLASTNAME” – and email it to QDR. Thanks!

Q1.Project title

Title in the original language and English, if different.

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Q2.Researchers involved in the project

Please include all researchers who were centrally involved in designing the research and executing the project. Please indicate each researcher’slast name and first name, their institutional affiliation and email address if available, and offer a one-line description of the role they played in data generation. Mark the project leader (principal investigator) with the initials “PI”. For researchersnot affiliated with an institution, please indicate their physical address.

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Q2a. Dissertation advisors should not be included in the category “researcher.” Nonetheless, if this project stems from a dissertation, please provide your main dissertation advisor’s name, institution, and email address.

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Q3.Keywords

Please supply five to eight key words reflecting the project topic (e.g., WWI, presidential politics, Latin America, social conflicts, work, foreign policy, voting, etc.)

1. ______
2. ______
3. ______
4. ______
5. ______
6. ______
7. ______
8. ______

Q4.Discipline(s)

Please select from the following list the discipline(s) to which your project is relevant.

☐Anthropology
☐Communication and media studies
☐Criminology
☐Demography
☐Economics
☐Education science
☐History
☐International relations/studies
☐Law
☐Linguistics / ☐Political geography
☐Political science
☐Psychology
☐Public administration
☐Social policy
☐Sociology
☐Urban studies
☐Other discipline/s (specify): ______
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Q5.Project type

Q5a. Please indicate below the type of your project. Consult A Guide to Sharing Qualitative Dataor QDR staff to determinewhich is the proper designation. If the data you wish to deposit will be used for more than one type of project, please fill out one form for each.

☐Stand-alone data collection

☐Active citation compilation

☐Topic cluster

Q5b. Is this deposit related to an existing QDR data project? For example, is it a new edition, extract, update, special version, or a new data project that references data previously deposited in QDR?

☐No

☐Yes: QDR number assigned to the related existing QDR project: ______

Q6.Overview of the project

Please provide a brief(up to 1000-word) description of the study with which the data you are sharing are associated. Specifically, your description should:

• outline the general topic or objective of the research that gave rise to the data,
• describe the research design (case selection, sampling procedures, etc.),
• describe the types of data that are included,
• indicate the analytic methods that were employed, and
• summarize the central findings and conclusions of the research.

Pleaseavoid addressing issues such as how the data might be used, who might be interested in the data, or offering any evaluative comments about the worth or usefulness of the study.

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Q7.Time period covered by the project

E.g., 1939-1945. This question does not refer to the time period during which the research was conducted; this issue is addressed in Q10.

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Q8.Geographic area/s covered by the project

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Q9. Funding sources

Q9a. Please provide the names of any person(s) or organization(s) that funded the research or creation of the data, with grant numbers where relevant.

Funding organisation/source / Grant number

Q9b. If applicable, please list the email address of the grant monitor or program officer to be notified when the full data files and documentation have been received and approved for posting.

Name / Email address

Q10. Period during which the research on which the project is based was conducted

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Q11. Data-collection techniques and personnel

Please (11a) identify the data-collection techniques employed and (11b) provide additional details concerning those techniques.

Q11a. Please check all techniquesused to collect the data you plan to share.

☐Archival research

☐Compilation or synthesis of existing material (e.g., collection of census reports)

☐Content analysis

☐Ethnography

☐Experiments

☐Focus group

☐Interviews – individual, face-to-face

☐Interviews – telephone

☐Observation

☐Oral history

☐Participant observation

☐Survey – email/web-based

☐Survey – face-to-face

☐Survey – postal

☐Other, please specify: ______

Q11b. Additional details on data collection techniques:

For each technique checked above, please provide additional detail concerning procedures used (approximately 250-500 words for each technique). For instance, if interviews were conducted, describe how respondents were selected and how, when, and where interviews were conducted.

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Q11c. Additional details on personnel:

To the extent this information is available, please list any individuals (beyond those mentioned in response to Q2) that were involved in interviewing, survey administration, interpreting, transcribing, or otherwise assisting in data collection, organization, and preparation. Please offer a brief description of their role.

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Q12. Data capture modes

You may have engaged in more or less interactive forms of data collection.

For more-interactive forms of data collection (including but not limited to ethnographies, experiments, focus groups, interviews, oral histories, participant observation, surveys [face-to-face]), indicate whether interactions were audio or video recorded (and if so whether recordings were transcribed), and whether notes were taken during or after interactions.

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For less-interactive forms of data collection (including but not limited to archival research, content analysis, etc.) please indicate whether sources were photographed, scanned, photocopied, recorded (i.e., read into a recording device), rewritten, or notes were taken.

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Q13. Data narrative (for stand-alone data collections only)

Please provide a narrative addressing each of the following questions:

• A stand-alone data collection is typically organized with some underlying logic. What is the organizing principle or underlying logic that provides coherence to the data collection? If it is organized according to categories, what are the categories? Put differently, how does the information you are sharing constitute more than a random amalgamation of material?
• Why were these data consulted in connection with the research project, and what other data potentially relevant to the project were not consulted and why?
• Why were these data selected for sharing and how do they relate to other data connected to the project that were not shared?

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Q14. Logic of activation and annotation (for active-citation compilationsonly)

The most recent version of A Guide to Active Citation(Section IV, Sub-section B) outlines particular logics for activating and annotatingcitations. If our suggested logics make sense to you, and you are comfortable applying them, please do. Nonetheless, we are fully open to the possibility that different scholars might take a different view on which citations to activate and annotate. If you anticipate activating or annotating your citations applyinglogics different from those we suggest, please outline your alternative approaches below. We understand that if your project is still in the planning stages, you may not have thought through these logics fully or may change your mind. We will inquire about your logics again on the Data Deposit Form that you will submit with your data. For now, please try to give us a general sense of your thinking.

Q14a. Please indicate the logic by which you have activated (or plan to activate) citations.How have you decided (or how will you decide) which citations to activate?

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Q14b. Please indicate the logic by which you have annotated (or plan to annotate) citations. How have you decided (or how will you decide) which citations to annotate? If there is a set of citations that you activated but did not annotate (or that you plan to activate but not annotate), could you explain that choice?

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Q15. Preliminary discussion ofsensitivity and preparation of data

Your answers to the following questions will help us understand whether the data you are sharing are under any external constraints. The Standard/Special Deposit Agreement,which you will submit later when you transferyour data files, is a binding legal document that will allow you to stipulate the specific conditions for access.

(1)Please describe the sensitivity of the data (how personal, specific, etc.).

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(2)If the research project with which the data are associated involves human subjects, please confirm that you have secured or are in the process of obtaining IRB approval; indicate whether the data will contain confidential information; and, if applicable, outline the steps you anticipate taking to prepare data for sharing via QDR (e.g., anonymization).

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(3)If your data include copyrighted material, please confirm that you have or are in the process of securing permission to share it, and/or indicate whether sharing it via QDR requires users to satisfy any additional conditions.

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(4)If the research that generated these data was supported by external funding, does your funding agency have any constraints or requirements about the data? If so, please describe these in detail. If not, please explicitly state “No funder-imposed constraints.”

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(5)Is there any other information it would be useful for QDR to have about your data?

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Q16.Further information about data deposit and timing

Repository standards require that all deposited data be fully documented.At the time of deposit, we will request that you complete and submit a Data Deposit Formwhich walks you through the process of documenting your data files. We will also ask that you sign a Standard/Special Deposit Agreementconfirming you have adhered to external constraints and satisfied external requirements for sharing your data, and stipulating access conditions.

QDR staff will use the information collected from thisProject Proposal form, and these two additional forms, to satisfy the repository’s metadata requirements. Metadata (data about your data) are vital to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of the data you share via QDR.

We hope to have as much data posted to QDR by our January 2014 launch as possible. However, we understand that carefully developing a pilot project is time consuming. If you anticipate needing more time, please indicate the date by which you think you will have all of your data prepared for deposit and your Data Deposit Form completed.

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Q17.Depositor (corresponding author)

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PRINTED NAMEDATE

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TITLE/ INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION

[*] The format and content of this document draw on the Data Deposit form used by the UK Data Service, the New Project Description web-based questionnaire used by FORS-DARIS, and the Data Deposit form used by ICPSR.