Research data, or research material, is the data generated during research that supports and, if necessary, replicates the results of the study. Research data can take various forms, including physical and electronic formats.
Different types of research data include:
- Various measurement results
- Data from surveys and interviews (survey forms, responses, tables, numerical data, etc.)
- Textual data (transcribed text files, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, stylistic analysis, etc.)
- Audio recordings (interview studies, phonetics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, etc.)
- Other audio recordings (e.g., music)
- Video recordings (e.g., interview studies, media studies, sign language)
- Data collected through observation (observation matrices, observation diaries, etc.)
- Research diaries kept by participants
- Research diaries kept by researchers
- Researcher's notes
- Self-made software and source codes
- Physical or electronic source materials collected by the researcher (e.g., biological samples, objects, text samples, collection materials)
- New data created by the researcher based on existing data
