Abstract
The ongoing Lothian Diary Project consists of 125+ audio/video recordings collected since May 2020 from residents of Edinburgh and the Lothian counties in Scotland. The diaries comprise self-recorded monologues or semi-structured interviews in which participants discuss their experiences during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recordings were uploaded to an online survey that also collected consent, demographic information, and opinion regarding Covid-related policies. All data marked for reuse are and will be housed in the University of Edinburgh’s DataShare and DataVault repositories. A partial deposit is available now and another will be made available upon completion of data collection. Data from consenting participants will form an oral history archive with Museums and Galleries, Edinburgh.
Highlights
The data for the Lothian Diary Project are part of Edinburgh Speaks, a project of the Language Variation and Change Research Group in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh
The file is manually transferred by a Research Assistant to a protected server space for processing (‘DataStore’). (4) Participants answer questions about their COVID-19 experience through a Qualtrics survey, adapted from questions created by the University of Edinburgh’s CovidLife project.1 (5) Participants chose an option for a £15 payment: bank transfer, local business voucher, or charity donation
For contributions marked for sharing with other researchers, mono 16 KHz WAV files, MP4 files, and accompanying transcripts and surveys are manually deposited into the Lothian Diary Project repository on DataVault; one deposit is available and another will be made available upon completion of data collection
Summary
The data for the Lothian Diary Project are part of Edinburgh Speaks, a project of the Language Variation and Change Research Group in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. For contributions marked for sharing with other researchers, mono 16 KHz WAV files, MP4 files, and accompanying transcripts and surveys are manually deposited into the Lothian Diary Project repository on DataVault; one deposit is available and another will be made available upon completion of data collection. DATASET CREATORS Lauren Hall-Lew: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft Claire Cowie: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Stephen McNulty: Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing Nina Markl: Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing Shan-Jan Sarah Liu: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Catherine Lai: Data curation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Clare Llewellyn: Investigation, Writing – review & editing Beatrice Alex: Writing – review & editing Nini Fang: Writing – review & editing Zuzana Elliott: Methodology, Data curation Anita Klingler: Data curation
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