Qualitative science methods have largely been omitted from discussions of open science. Platforms focused on qualitative science that support open science data and method sharing are rare. Sharing and exchanging coding schemas has great potential for supporting traceability in qualitative research as well as for facilitating the reuse of coding schemas. In this study, we present and evaluate QualiCO, an ontology to describe qualitative coding schemas. Twenty qualitative researchers used QualiCO to complete two coding tasks. In our findings, we present task performance and interview data that focus participants’ attention on the ontology. Participants used QualiCO to complete the coding tasks, decreasing time on task, while improving accuracy, signifying that QualiCO enabled the reuse of qualitative coding schemas. Our discussion elaborates some issues that participants had and highlights how conceptual and prior practice frames their interpretation of how QualiCO can be used.

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评估 QualiCO：促进定性方法共享以支持开放科学的本体

开放科学的讨论中基本上忽略了定性科学方法。支持开放科学数据和方法共享的专注于定性科学的平台很少见。共享和交换编码模式对于支持定性研究中的可追溯性以及促进编码模式的重用具有巨大的潜力。在这项研究中，我们提出并评估了 QualiCO，这是一种描述定性编码模式的本体。20 名定性研究人员使用 QualiCO 完成了两项编码任务。在我们的研究结果中，我们展示了将参与者的注意力集中在本体上的任务表现和访谈数据。参与者使用 QualiCO 完成编码任务，减少了任务时间，同时提高了准确性，这表明 QualiCO 实现了定性编码模式的重用。