Non-identifying qualitative research materials for "Rural Intangible Cultural Heritage Governance: Discursive Alignment for Sustainable Development"

This record contains non-identifying research materials supporting the qualitative study Rural Intangible Cultural Heritage Governance: Discursive Alignment for Sustainable Development (Tubillejas-Andrés et al., 2026; https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.71463). It includes an analytical protocol describing the thematic and KH Coder workflow; an aggregated thematic synthesis corresponding to the published Table 1; a data-availability statement; and documentation describing the scope and access conditions of the research materials. The underlying study was conducted in the Province of Bergamo, Italy. Data were collected in April 2025 through three group discussions with 11 purposively selected participants representing the public sector (n=5), private-sector cultural and creative activities (n=3), and residents involved in cultural initiatives and local associations (n=3). The source material was collected and analysed in Italian. The workflow combined a thematic synthesis with KH Coder co-occurrence network maps and Jaccard similarity analysis. No separate formal codebook was used. Original transcripts, recordings, consent forms, the focus-group question guide, any pseudonymisation key and the KH Coder project containing the source corpus are not included in this version of the record. The transcripts contain personal data or contextual information that could enable direct or indirect re-identification of participants. For methodological enquiries or information about possible controlled-access conditions for the original materials, contact Berta Tubillejas-Andrés at [e-mail]. Requests will be assessed case by case in accordance with the informed consent obtained for the study, applicable ethics review and data-protection requirements. Access to original transcripts is not guaranteed.