Order, archive, share. Research data in the ethnological disciplines

TitleOrder, archive, share. Research data in the ethnological disciplines
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsImeri, Sabine
JournalJournal for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis
Volume3
Issue2
Pagination215–240
AbstractResearch data management’ is booming. Urgently demanded and driven by such diverse actors as research funding institutions, who are interested in quality control and the efficient use of data, or the ‘Open’ movements, who advocate free access to knowledge, ethnologists and cultural anthropologists meet this topic with reluctance and often with skepticism. Rightly so, on the one hand, since the archiving of data and, above all, the intended reuse of data by third parties raise a number of practical, legal and ethical questions. On the other hand, the question of how digital data can be organized and especially permanently preserved and used is virulent also in the ethnological disciplines. In any case, the debate on the subject is urgent because overarching regulatory processes have long since been set in motion.