Albert2024a

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Albert2024a
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Albert2024a
Author(s) Saul Albert, Emily Hofstetter
Title Working with Data I: Field Recordings
Editor(s) Jeffrey D. Robinson, Rebecca Clift, Kobin H. Kendrick, Chase Wesley Raymond
Tag(s) EMCA, Data management, Recording
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year 2024
Language English
City Cambridge
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Pages 97-114
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DOI 10.1017/9781108936583.004
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Book title The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation Analysis
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Abstract

Field recordings are the data from which CA research proceeds. Keeping recordings well organized and accessible, securely backed up, and as reusable as possible is important for avoiding data loss, enabling collaboration, and ensuring future uses of the data. In this chapter, we outline some essential data management practices for backing up, encrypting, and sharing data. We explain how conversation analysts organize audiovisual files, transcripts, and metadata. We also help the reader to navigate the complexities of dealing with multiple recording sources, and for choosing digital file formats and codecs. This chapter aims to support CA researchers from the first moment of having recorded some interactional field data to the point of being ready to start doing detailed forms of analysis.

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