Scaling Up: How Data Curation Can Help Address Key Issues in Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research

Sara Mannheimer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Data Librarian at Montana State University. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Bard College, her MS in Information Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Humboldt University of Berlin. In her work as a librarian, she helps shape practices and theories for curation, sharing, discovery, and preservation of data. Her research examines the social, ethical, and technical issues of a data-driven world. She is currently the project director of the IMLS-funded Responsible AI project, which produces ethical decision-making resources for librarians and archivists who engage with artificial intelligence.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Theoretical approach, methods, and definitions.- Chapter 3 Qualitative data reuse in practice.- Chapter 4 Big social research in practice.- Chapter 5 Comparison of issues and data curation strategies.- Chapter 6 Researchers and data curators respond to key issues.- Chapter 7 Insights from interviews with researchers and curators.- Chapter 8 Scaling up responsibly connecting communities of practice.