WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 1 00:00:06.880 --> 00:00:13.760 Hi! My name is Ella in this video I will read you a text by a doctoral student about how they archived 2 00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:20.640 their research data so the topic of the video is archiving research data for my PhD research 3 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:27.280 in creative writing I produced ethnographic data there is another video about this process 4 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:33.840 I conducted my research in collaboration with the university of Turku so my data was archived at 5 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.440 the archive of the school of history culture and art studies of the university of Turku 6 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:46.000 the archive keeps records for example photographs recorded interviews and interview transcripts 7 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.360 produced by students and researchers from the different departments of the school of history 8 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:57.760 culture and arts studies the archived materials are available for the purposes of scientific 9 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:03.680 research and education in recent years there's been a lot of discussion about the principles 10 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:10.240 of open science according to which also research data should when possible be publicly available 11 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.800 on the other hand changes in legislation on collecting and storing personal information 12 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:22.080 have also had their effect on research making it all the more important that researchers 13 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:28.080 have a clear idea about what kind of data they are producing collecting and storing 14 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:34.480 archives have a lot of know-how in these questions and I was very grateful to have this kind of 15 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:41.120 support available at the university of Jyväskylä there's no archive for students research data so 16 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:47.360 all of this is not necessarily applicable there is however support available for both students 17 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:54.480 and researchers for researchers there are also several tools provided by the university I had 18 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:59.920 already made an agreement with the archive about storing my research data at the beginning of my 19 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:06.160 research process when I had produced all the data I needed I made an appointment at the archive and 20 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:12.000 took with me the consent forms my research participant had signed as well as the data 21 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.880 itself the interview files in mp3 format and the transcriptions I had printed out 22 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:25.200 the consent form my research participants signed was basically just a document stating they were 23 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:30.800 okay with the interview being archived the rules of the archive are printed on the other side of 24 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.080 the form the participants could also tick a box about referencing the material using 25 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:42.080 their personal information such as their year of birth in my study I don't share any information 26 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:48.720 like that about the people I interviewed I had organized the sound and word files by numbers 27 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:54.960 in chronological order the transcript files were named in the same way so it is easy to see which 28 00:02:54.960 --> 00:03:01.920 interview file and which transcript file belong together each interview was given an identifier 29 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:08.240 a code that I use when quoting my data so after each interview quote there is a code indicating 30 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:14.560 the collection the form of data photograph or audio file for example the year of archiving 31 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:21.600 and the page number of the interview transcript file the archive also records metadata information 32 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:28.000 about the data in my case this meant contextual information about the interviews what kind of 33 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:33.840 interviews they were for what purpose they were made and what kind of subjects were talked about 34 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:39.520 they are also given key words so that it'll be easier for future researchers 35 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:45.520 to find them from the archive database it is possible for the researcher to set restrictions 36 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:51.760 for the use of the data for example my data will only be available for other researchers after 37 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:58.880 I have published my findings in my PhD however archiving research data means it'll eventually 38 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:04.400 be available for future researchers who may have new and different frameworks for approaching it 39 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:11.520 it also strengthens the reliability of the research for example it'll be possible to 40 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:18.160 check if I have quoted my interviewees correctly archives have a long and interesting history they 41 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.480 have been important for research but also in the creation of collective memory what is archived 42 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:31.520 is always also a question of cultural values what do we think is worth keeping and storing 43 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:43.200 I think of archives as a part of the story we tell ourselves about our past present and future