Sebastian Karcher

"Incubation Project for Empirical Evidence to Improve Informed Consent in the Social Sciences:_Collaborative Research:", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Support for Institutes and Research Groups on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: 2024-2026", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"American Political Science Review Editorship", Sponsored by American Political Science Association.

"Mapping Open Science through the Journal Editors Discussion Interface:_EAGER", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship", Sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

"Qualitative Data Repository 2021-2024", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Curating QDAS Research Objects for Exchange and Reuse", Sponsored by Institute of Museum & Library Services.

"EAGER: Sharing Knowledge, Building Community: Introducing a Journal Editors' Discussion Interface (JEDI)", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Support for Institutes and Research Groups on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: 2021 - 2023", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Collaborative Research: Encouraging Open Law and Science", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Privacy Interoperability", Sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

"Qualitative Data Repository 2018 - 2021", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

• Journal Articles
  • Furlong, D. E., Romero, A., Helström, K., Lester, J. N. and Karcher, S., "Teaching with shared data for learning qualitative data analysis: a multi-sited case study of instructor and student experiences." International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024.
  • Meghani, S. H., Mooney-Doyle, K., Barnato, A., Colborn, K., Gillette, R., Harrison, K. L., Hinds, P. S., Kirilova, D., Knafl, K., Schulman-Green, D., Pollak, K. I., Ritchie, C. S., Kutner, J. S. and Karcher, S., "Lessons Learned Establishing the Palliative Care Research Cooperative's Qualitative Data Repository." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2024.
  • Karcher, S., Secen, S. and Weber, N., "Protecting Sensitive Data Early in the Research Data Lifecycle." Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2023.
  • Colón, R., Goben, A. and Karcher, S., "Actually Accessible Data: An Update and a Call to Action." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2023.
  • Jacobs, A. M., Kapiszewski, D. and Karcher, S., "Using Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) to Teach Qualitative Research Methods." PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022.
  • VandeVusse, A., Mueller, J. and Karcher, S., "Qualitative Data Sharing: Participant Understanding, Motivation, and Consent." Qualitative Health Research, 2022.
  • Kapiszewski, D., Karcher, S., "Empowering Transparency: Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)." In Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI): Transparency in Practice in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 2021.
  • Karcher, S., Dessislava, K., Page, C. and Weber, N., "How Data Curation Enables Epistemically Responsible Reuse of Qualitative Data." The Qualitative Report 26, 2021.
  • Demgenski, R., Karcher, S., Dessi, D. and Weber, N., "Introducing the Qualitative Data Repository's Curation Handbook." Journal of EScience Librarianship, 2021.
  • Kapiszewski, D., Karcher, S., "Introduction: Case Studies in Transparent Qualitative Research." In Varieties of Transparency in Qualitative Research. Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, 2021.
  • Kapiszewski, D., Karcher, S., "Transparency in Practice in Qualitative Research." PS: Political Science & Politics, 2021.
  • Alexander, S. M., Jones, K., Bennett, N. J., Budden, A., Cox, M., Crosas, M., Game, E. T., Geary, J., Hardy, R. D., Johnson, J. T., Karcher, S., Motzer, N., Pittman, J., Randell, H., Silva, J. A., da Silva, P. P., Strasser, C., Strawhacker, C., Stuhl, A. and Weber, N., "Qualitative data sharing and synthesis for sustainability science." Nature Sustainability, 2020.
  • Weber, N., Karcher, S. and Myers, J., "Open Source Tools for Scaling Data Curation at QDR." The Code4Lib Journal, 2020.
• Book Chapters
  • Karcher, S., Dessi, K., Page, C., Salmona, M., Kaczynski, D. and Lieber, E., "Case Study: Sharing Qualitative Social Science Data." In Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose: A Practical Approach for Research across the Social Sciences. SAGE, 2020.
  • Gerring, J., Karcher, S. and Apfeld, B., "Impact Metrics." In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science. Strategies for Social Inquiry, 2020.
  • Kapiszewski, D., Karcher, S., "Making Research Data Accessible." In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science. Strategies for Social Inquiry, 2020.
  • Karcher, S., Paulus, T. M. and Friend Wise, A., "Qualitative Data Repository: Case Study." In Looking for Insight, Transformation, and Learning in Online Talk. Routledge, 2019.
  • Thelen, K. A., Karcher, S., "Resilience and Change in Federal Institutions: The Case of the German Federal Council." In Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change, and the Varieties of Federalism. Broschek, J., Benz, A. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Karcher, S., Schneider, B. R., "Business Politics in Latin America." In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Routledge, 2012.
  • Karcher, S., Schneider, B. R., "Business Politics in Latin America: Investigating Structure, Preferences, and Infuence." In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Kingstone, P. R., Yashar , D. J. (eds.) Routledge, 2012.
• Book Review
  • Karcher, S., "Review of: Labor Relations in New Democracies: East Asia, Latin America and Europe." Political Studies Review, 2013.
• Conference Proceedings
  • Palmer, C. L., Karcher, S., Belarde-Lewis, M., Littletree, S. and Guerrero, N., "Stewarding Contextual Integrity in Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship." In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Wiley, 2024.
  • Weber, N., Karcher, S., "Seeking Seeking Justification: How Expert Reviewers Validate Empirical Claims with Data Annotations." In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020, 2020.
• Pedagogical Writings
  • Karcher, S., Clement, G. and Morrel, T., Author Carpentry: Open authoring and publishing. .
  • Karcher, S., Kapiszewski, D., Managing Qualitative Social Science Data: An Interactive Online Course. .
  • Karcher, S., Zelle, R., Mastering Zotero. .
• Software
  • Kuriwaki, S., Beasley, W., Leeper, T. J., Durbin, P. and Karcher, S., "dataverse: Client for Dataverse 4+ Repositories." In CRAN: Contributed Packages. The R Foundation, 2017.
• Working Papers
  • Frohwirth, L., Karcher, S. and Lever, T. A., A Transparency Checklist for Qualitative Research. Center for Open Science Preprints, 2023.
  • Crosas, M., Gautier, J., Karcher, S., Kirilova, D., Otalora, G., Schwartz, A., Crosas, M., Gautier, J., Karcher, S., Dessi, K., Otalora, G. and Schwartz, A., "Data policies of highly-ranked social science journals." SocArXiv, 2018.

University of New Mexico, "Ethically Sharing Qualitative Data" (November 19, 2024)

APSA Annual Meeting, APSA, "Managing Qualitative Research Data" (September 4, 2024)

IASSIST Annual Meeting, IASSIST, "Introducing the Journal Editors Discussion Interface" (May 31, 2024)

PEERS Data Hub panel: How to Identify High-Quality Education Data Using Archives, ICPSR, "Finding Qualitative Education Data at The Qualitative Data Repository" (May 23, 2024)

Qualitative Data Repository, "Sharing Qualitative Data" (March 26, 2024)

Temple University, "Ethically Sharing Qualitative Data" (February 15, 2024)

Office of Policy Research and Evaluation: Qualitative Data Archiving , Office of Policy Research, US Department of Health and Human Services, "Qualitative Data Sharing Fundamentals" (January 22, 2024)