Project description

The Open-Science-Movement becoming general practice in the empirical sciences and thus particularly in Psychology has generally two aims:  On the one hand, it targeted at improving the research economy and on the other hand the quality of scientific work. As a result, not only the calls for open access as the free availability of the research outcome, i.e. the publication, but also as the free availability of scientific data are growing louder.   

However, the goal of preserving the long-term interpretability of research data require substantial effort from researchers. This is because psychology is a complex field with multiple assignments to the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences with correspondingly diverse, hardly standardized qualitative and quantative methods. Common standards for the documentation of psychological research data that can meet these discipline- and method-specific requirements and thus guarantee the long-term interpretability and re-usability of these data are largely lacking at the moment.

Even the PsychData-documentation standard that developed by the ZPID, which should ensure the findability and interpretability of significant psychological studies, is not very well known in the field. This might be seen as an indicator for an insufficient usability as well as a mismatch between the requirements of a high-quality documentation and the method-specific requirements grounded in the re-use of psychological research data.  To this end, the project PsyCuraDat aims at the development of user-oriented curation criteria considering the needs of researchers in their role as contributors and users of research data. Thus, the overarching goal is to enable a more effective and efficient documentation and re-use of psychological research data.

Publications

• Blask, K., Latz, M., Müller, M.-L., Kraffert, S., & Schröder, N. (2021). Towards Sustainable and Usable Data Sharing Practices in Psychology: Providing an empirical test on the usability of a new documentation standard for psychological research data. Leibniz Institut für Psychologie (ZPID). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.5001
• Blask, K., Müller, M.-L., Arnold, V., & Kraffert, S. (2021). Evaluation of the PsyCuraDat-Specification 2.0: Study description of the data referring to the second user study conducted in the BMBF-funded project PsyCuraDat. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.4459
• Blask, K., Gerhards, L., & Jalynskij, M. (2021). PsyCuraDat: Designing a User-Oriented Curation Standard for Behavioral Psychological Research Data. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.579397
• Blask, K., Gerhards, L., & Jalynskij, M. (2020). BMBF-project PsyCuraDat: Online Survey (Metadata in Psychology 2.0: What researchers really need). Data repository PsychArchives.
  PsyCuraDat: Online survey data file version 1.0.0, http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2751
• Blask, K., Gerhards, L., & Jalynskij, M. (2020). Metadata in Psychology 2.0: What researchers really need – Study description of the data referring to the online survey conducted in the BMBF-funded project PsyCuraDat.
  ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.2757
• Blask, K., Jalynskij, M., & Gerhards, L. (2020). Metadata in Psychology 1.0: What researchers really need – Study description of the data referring to the expert interviews conducted in the BMBF-funded project PsyCuraDat.
  ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.2750
• Blask, K., Jalynskij, M., & Gerhards, L. (2020). BMBF-project PsyCuraDat: Expert interviews (Metadata in Psychology 1.0: What researchers really need). Data repository PsychArchives.
  PsyCuraDat: Expert interviews, interview transcripts and data file version 1.0.0, http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2756