Research Data Centre for audio-visual data of qualitative social research (RDC-aviDa)

Based on DepositOnce, the repository for research data and publications of the Technische Universität Berlin, aviDa has been established since July 2018 as a prototypical research data infrastructure (RDI) for the long-term, community-based digital preservation and reuse of audio-visual research data. It has been built up in cooperation between the Department of General Sociology of the Technische Universität Berlin, the Chair of Cultural and Religious Sociology of the University of Bayreuth, the University Library, and the Central Institution for Campus Management (ZECM) of the TU Berlin. In doing so, the foundation was laid for a sustainable and stable web-based platform with high usability and efficiency, which is intended to serve the (science-internal) exchange of research data for subsequent use in research and teaching.

AviDa was again able to win numerous important cooperation partners: Cooperation agreements have been signed with the DFG Collaborative Research Centers 1171 and 1265, the chairs of Cultural and Religious Sociology, German Linguistics and Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Bayreuth, as well as the RatSWD-accredited FDZ Qualiservice at the University of Bremen.

aviDa can currently provide access on request to a sociology of religion corpus of 927 video files (704 GB) in three sub-studies. The metadata of the corpus is freely accessible (http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-10515):

Audience emotions in sports and religion. Subcorpus religion: “Celebrations”.
Knoblauch, Hubert; Haken, Meike; Wetzels, Michael (2020-09-09).

• Audience emotions in sports and religion. Subcorpus religion: “Celebrations”. Part 1: Leipzig 2016
  Haken, Meike; Wetzels, Michael (2020-09-09).

• Audience emotions in sports and religion. Subcorpus religion: “Celebrations”. Part 2: Krakow 2016
  Haken, Meike; Wetzels, Michael (2020-09-09).

• Audience emotions in sports and religion. Subcorpus religion: “Celebrations”. Part 3: Berlin/Wittenberg 2017
  Haken, Meike; Wetzels, Michael (2020-06-09).

By April 2021, the first sub-studies of the videographic research data corpus from the project “Social Distancing and New Spatial Forms of Interaction” (Berlin University Alliance) had also been published. Seven further sub-studies are currently in preparation.

Social Distancing and New Spatial Forms of Interaction
Tuma, René; Knoblauch, Hubert; Flick, Uwe (2021-01-26)

• Social Distancing and new spatial forms of interaction. Substudy 1
  Pach, Helen (2021-01-26).
• Social Distancing and new spatial forms of interaction. Substudy 3: Berlin & Hannover Meinert, Leopold (2021-04-29).

In addition, a linguistic eye tracking corpus (pilot corpus) is published via aviDa, whose metadata is freely searchable. The video files can be made available individually upon request:

•  Meals. An eye tracking study: Birkner, Karin; Groß, Alexandra (2021-03-12).

The data supply is to be continuously expanded.