Towards Open Science for the Qualitative Researcher: From a Positivist to an Open Interpretation

This reflection by a qualitative researcher stems from concrete experience with data handling in funded research project. The followed Open Research Data guidelines and found optimal solutions to pseudonymise data, but this later evolved into deep epistemological questioning on praxis. During the first phase of project, tailor-made software was developed help librarians an IT professional automate pseudonymisation 150 chunks generated 16 students, 3 tutors decision makers. In second sparked questions about meaning such interpretations Science, which led suggest framework for development researchers their understanding Science. article raises awareness normative frameworks institutional practices calls active contributions defining Science perspective, particularly taking as reference recent draft recommendation UNESCO (2020)