1. Accessing and Using Data in the Irish Qualitative Data Archive
Dr. Jane Gray
Irish Qualitative Data Archive, NUI Maynooth
‘Keeping Children Safe and Secure in Ireland’
University College, Cork, 13th September 2011

2. Who We Are
Established in 2008 as part of the Irish Social Science Platform under PRTLI4
Housed in the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis at NUI Maynooth
Aims:
To be the central access point for all qualitative social science data generated in Ireland
Promote best practice in data management
Participant in consortium to develop a National Audiovisual Repository (NAVR) under PRTLI5

3. Qualitative Data What kinds of data do we archive?
Interviews (audio, video, transcripts)
Focus groups
Diaries and documents
Field notes
Photographs
Why re-use archived qualitative data?
Ask new questions
Comparative studies
Learn by looking at the work of others
Reduce burden on respondents
Add value for funders

4. Growing Up in Ireland Qualitative module
Interviews with children
Interviews with parents
Time capsules
Field notes
First wave of interviews with sample of 120 families from the 9 year cohort
Launch 22nd September
R    ok. So what about again if you think into the future, is there anything that you think that you would be worried about? C    getting a job R    ok. Why do you think that’s a worry, do you think that might be hard? C    yeah R    what do you think makes that hard? C    that other people apply and they could just get it R    so before you. Is there any job in particular that you think you might like to do? Apart from soccer player, you'll probably earn loads of money from that so you won’t need a job! But if you had to get a job is there anything? C    maybe to have a R    ok. What would you sell? C    plants and carpets, bowls and plates, cups and toys

5. Suburban Affiliations
Mixed method study of four suburban areas in Greater Dublin Area

6. Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland
We walked from here … we had a protestant school .. They’d have to go into their own school further in the town. And we connected in the morning and, in. out .. We visited, we kicked football, we were always pals … oh,we’d have a slagging match coming out the road, all right … Catholic, Catholic, quack,quack, quack, Go to the divvil, and never come back. Protestant, Protestant, - they had some other rhyme! That’s all. And go away laughing .. Meant nothing
Oral history comprising more than one hundred interviews

7. Irish Catholics in Scotland
“As soon as the school closed we went across. My father would be working and then he would come across for a fortnight for the Fair. So as soon as we went over there the first thing we would do was throw off our shoes and socks and that would be us more or less for the holiday, apart from Sundays, running about in our bare feet .. .
That was the whole idea to get away from city life. I remember thinking some of the days we would be coming back and you would be saying to yourself just think tomorrow we'll be in Glasgow and it was really a sad occasion and when the mini bus came to pick us up, there would be a dozen of us going back and one person would start crying and that started us all, and my oldest brother would go around saying cheerio to the hens and the cows and it was terrible. It is still a wrench leaving the place and coming back but in those days you knew that was it for another year. “

8. Life Histories and Social Change in 20th Century Ireland
Retrospective qualitative interviews with respondents who took part in all eight waves of the Living in Ireland study
"My mother used to make a ball and we used to play ball, she used to make a hurl out of a bit of a board and make the handle a bit thin and you could catch it, no shape or make it only a bit of a board. And she used to make a ball out of a soft set of turf and put an old sock around it"

9. Best Practice in Data Management: the RACcER Project
Data Features
Data Format
Data Type
Data Record Years
Data File
CDI Board
Word text data, PDF
Meeting Minutes and Meeting Agenda
CDI Team
Word text, html
CDI Community of Practice Team
Word text
1.Doodle-Den Team
2.ECCE Team
3.Mate-Tricks Team
Demonstrator project co-funded by IRCHSS and Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative
Best Practice Handbook
Archive of CDI internal documents
Minutes and agendas from Board, Management Team, Communities of Practice

10. Ethical Framework Consent Anonymisation
Depositor and end-user licenses and legal agreements
Access and user restrictions

11. Exploring the IQDA website
Home page –
Qualicat
Accessing data
Depositing data
Other features
Map search
Anonymisation tool
Audio samples