Community of Practice for Naturally Occurring Data (COP 4 ONOD) is a hub that hosts resources aimed at enabling the sharing, publishing, and reusing of naturally occurring data.
This website is supported by a dedicated Open Science community of practice comprising research support staff and researchers who work with naturally occurring data.
Qualitative Innovation in Action. Advancing Open Research through Qualitative Methods
Future event
Join us on the 12th of December 2025 for the symposium "Qualitative Innovation in Action. Advancing Open Research through Qualitative Methods" organised by Bogdana Huma, Elliott Hoey and RIOS. The one-day event, hosted at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, comprises plenary talks (that can be attended both in-person and online) and interactive workshops (available only in-person) on innovative approaches to Open Research inspired by qualitative methodologies. For more details about the event, click on "View More" below.
Qualitative Open Science Symposium: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies
Past event
On the 28th of March 2025, Bogdana Huma and Sam Heijnen organised the symposium “Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies”. The one-day event, hosted at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and funded by Open Science NL, comprised plenary talks and interactive workshops on a variety of topics related to qualitative Open Science. For more details about the event, click on "View More" below.
Launch of the community of practice and website
Past event
On the 11th of December 2024, we organised a launch event for our newly established community of practice for open naturally occurring data. During this event we also unveiled our brand-new website which will be hosting resources that support the adoption of Open Data practices by researchers working with naturally occurring data. For more details about the event, click on "View More" below.
Latest news
Read about upcoming and past events, as well as newly added resources related to ‘opening’ naturally occurring data.
The Community of Practice for Naturally Occurring Data aims to facilitate, inspire, and consolidate good practices for sharing and reusing naturally occurring data with the goal of increasing collaboration, transparency, and innovation.
About the Project
The project “Building a Community of Practice for Open Naturally Occurring Data” aims to support the establishment of a community of practice comprised of research support staff and qualitative researchers who work with naturally occurring data. The project has received funding from the NWO between
April 2024 – March 2025.
Naturally occurring data are audio, video, and digital records of real-life interactions that take place in everyday life such as medical consultations, calls to helplines, and social media posts. They are widely used by qualitative researchers across a range of disciplines such as communication science, linguistics, psychology, and sociology because of the valuable insight they provide into real-world phenomena, behaviours, and interactions.
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