Interview transcripts for the project titled Toward Data Quality Assurance Infrastructure for Research Data Repositories

This dataset is a collection of interview transcripts from a study that examined data quality assurance practices in research data repositories in the USA. In particular, the data was used to examine the following research questions:
How do research data repositories define data quality? How do RDRs ensure data quality? What are the challenges and problems of DQA in RDRs? What are some of the strategies for resolving those problems?
The dataset includes 18 transcripts representing 18 repositories and 17 universities in the US. 17 of these universities were R1 universities, and one was an R2 university.
Interviews were conducted between December 2022 and February 2023.
Out of the 18 repositories represented by the transcripts, 15 were generalist or domain-agnostic, while the remaining 3 were domain-specific. These domain-specific repositories focused on the social sciences, biology, and applied science and engineering.