Contextualizing qualitative research data for secondary reuse — a guide for researchers on the preparation of a study report.

The contextualization of qualitative research data for further scientific use is one of the central challenges in data sharing (see Medjedović & Witzel, 2010; Corti et al., 2014; Medjedović, 2014). With this guidance document, the Qualiservice Research Data Center would like to support you in contextualizing your research data. On the following pages, you will find rec-ommendations for the description and documentation of your research materials. The focus is on writing a study report that describes your research project, the origin of the data, and the data itself. Section 2 explains the study report in more detail. Section 3 presents a template for writing the study report that can serve as a guide and be adapted to the requirements of your research project. The focus here is on the presentation of qualitative interview studies. Other types of qualitative research data might require more comprehensive adaptations. Qualiservice materials to provide support in presenting other studies are in preparation. As an introduction to the topic, the following section provides an overview of the importance of contextualizing the data and the process of contextualization at Qualiservice.