Aims & Objectives

The main aim of the demonstrator project is to critically and empirically address the methodological implications of archiving and (re)presenting substantive multimodal qualitative research that exploits the full possibilities of contemporary information and communication technologies.

Key objectives of the project are:

• To enhance the transfer of new methodological practices for the storage, analysis and representation of multimodal qualitative metadata.
• To produce web based guidelines, supporting information and exemplars to assist researchers in making their qualitative data, designs and methodological decisions available for re-use and archiving.
• To produce an interactive working model (a methodological trail) of an existing project, dataset and analysis prepared for re-use in such a way as to allow future users to track the research design, methodological choices and decisions.
• To examine the potential of XML schemas and stylesheets for displaying and transforming qualitative multimedia data records in digital and online form.