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).
About the authors
Rick Gilmore is Professor of Psychology at Penn State and is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Databrary.
Andrea Seisler manages the Brain and Behavioral Dynamics Laboratory at Penn State and is the Authorizations and Support Specialist for Databrary.
Kasey Soska is Science Director for the Play & Learning Across a Year project. Melody Xu was a User Support Specialist at Databrary until she began a Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University in August 2023.
Yinghe Liu was an undergraduate student in Psychology at Penn State.
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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
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Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Video can make behavioural science more reproducible.
Nature Human Behaviour,
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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