The Research Data Center Qualiservice provides services for archiving and reusing qualitative research data from the social sciences. We advise and accompany research projects in the process of long-term data archiving and data sharing. Data curation is conducted by experts for the social sciences. We also provide research data and relevant context information for reuse in scientific research and teaching. Internationally interoperable metadata ensure that data sets are searchable and findable. Persistent identifiers (DOI) ensure that data and study contexts are citable.
Qualiservice was accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) in 2019 and adheres to its quality assurance criteria. Qualiservice is committed to the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice and takes into account the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship as well as the OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding. Qualiservice coordinates the networking and further development of scientific infrastructures for archiving and secondary use of qualitative data from social research within the framework of the National Research Data Infrastructure.