What can qualitative researchers learn from Indexing?
My thoughts on a research article from the Indexer Title: Indexing and the ‘organized’ researcher Authors: Hope A. Olson and Lisa M. Given Journal and Issue: The Indexer Vol.23 (3) Year: 2003 Introduction The main objective of this article is to bring out certain principles that are applied in indexing to assist researchers in collecting and organizing data for qualitative research in a more efficient manner. The article rests on the premise that there are significant gaps in the training of researchers who work with qualitative data, creating challenges in organizing data and arriving at relevant conclusions to answer their research questions. This is because, some relevant information gets easily picked up while coding qualitative data while some are actually left out. Therefore, they propose that the Knowledge Organization Model applied for indexing can be extended to qualitative research. Knowledge Organization Model The authors draw parallels between the processe...