Databrary Guide

Welcome

This document describes the Databrary.org data library and how to use it effectively as a tool for safely and securely sharing identifiable research data including video and audio.

Databrary is used by a large and growing community of researchers across the globe, including some large scale research projects (Soska et al., 2021) run by Databrary’s co-founders, Karen Adolph and Rick Gilmore, and their collaborators.

Databrary’s founders believe that the widespread use and sharing of video can improve reproducibility and rigor of many different areas of research (Adolph, K.E., Gilmore, R.O., & Kennedy, J.L., 2017; Gilmore & Adolph, 2017).

This guide was written by Rick Gilmore, Andrea Seisler, Melody Xu, and Yinghe Liu.

References

Adolph, K.E., Gilmore, R.O., & Kennedy, J.L. (2017). Video as data and documentation will improve psychological science. https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2017/10/video-data. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2017/10/video-data

Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Video can make behavioural science more reproducible. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(7). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0128

Soska, K. C., Xu, M., Gonzalez, S. L., Herzberg, O., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). (Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral science. Journal of Escience Librarianship, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1208