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Current Position
- Associate Director, Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University (2016-)
- Research Assistant Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University (2019-)
Education
2014
____ Ph.D. in Political Science (Northwestern University)
2007
____ MA in Political Science (Northwestern University)
2004
____ Magister Artium (Tübingen University)
Peer Reviewed Publications
- VandeVusse, Alicia, Jennifer Mueller, and Sebastian Karcher. 2022. “Qualitative Data Sharing: Participant Understanding, Motivation, and Consent.” Qualitative Health Research 32 (1): 182–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211054058. Preprint.
- Jacobs, Alan M., Diana Kapiszewski, and Sebastian Karcher. 2022. “Using Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) to Teach Qualitative Research Methods.” PS: Political Science & Politics 55 (1): 216–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521001335. Preprint.
- Kapiszewski, Diana, and Sebastian Karcher. 2021. “Introduction: Case Studies in Transparent Qualitative Research.” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 19 (1): 6–9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495548. Introduction to a guest-edited symposium “Varieties of Transparency in Qualitative Research.”
- Demgenski, Robert, Sebastian Karcher, Dessi Dessi, and Nic Weber. 2021. “Introducing the Qualitative Data Repository’s Curation Handbook.” Journal of EScience Librarianship 10 (3): 1207. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1207
- Kapiszewski, Diana, and Sebastian Karcher. 2021. “Empowering Transparency: Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI).” PS: Political Science & Politics 54 (3): 473–78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521000287. Introduction to a guest-edited symposium “Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI): Transparency in Practice in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research.” Ungated.
- Karcher, Sebastian, Dessislava Kirilova, Christiane Pagé, and Nic Weber. 2021. “How Data Curation Enables Epistemically Responsible Reuse of Qualitative Data.” The Qualitative Report 26 (6): 1996–2010. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2021.5012.
- Kapiszewski, Diana, and Sebastian Karcher. 2021. “Transparency in Practice in Qualitative Research.” PS: Political Science & Politics 54 (2): 285–91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520000955.
- Weber, Nicholas, Sebastian Karcher, and James Myers. 2020. “Open Source Tools for Scaling Data Curation at QDR.” The Code4Lib Journal, no. 49 (August). https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15436.
- Weber, Nicholas, and Sebastian Karcher. 2020. “Seeking Justification: How Expert Reviewers Validate Empirical Claims with Data Annotations.” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020, 227–34. JCDL ’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398537.
- Alexander, Steven M., Kristal Jones, Nathan J. Bennett, Amber Budden, Michael Cox, Mercè Crosas, Edward T. Game, et al. 2020. “Qualitative Data Sharing and Synthesis for Sustainability Science.” Nature Sustainability 3 (2): 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0434-8. Preprint.
- Karcher, Sebastian, and Nicholas Weber. 2019. “Annotation for Transparent Inquiry: Transparent Data and Analysis for Qualitative Research.” IASSIST Quarterly 43 (2): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.29173/iq959.
- Karcher, Sebastian, and Sophia Lafferty-Hess. 2019. “An Epic Journey in Sharing: The Story of a Young Researcher’s Journey to Share Her Data and the Information Professionals Who Tried to Help.” IASSIST Quarterly 43 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.29173/iq942.
- Fenner, Martin, Mercè Crosas, Jeffrey S. Grethe, David Kennedy, Henning Hermjakob, Phillippe Rocca-Serra, Gustavo Durand, et al. 2019. “A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories.” Scientific Data 6 (1): 28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8.
- Kirilova, Dessi, and Sebastian Karcher. 2017. “Rethinking Data Sharing and Human Participant Protection in Social Science Research: Applications from the Qualitative Realm.” Data Science Journal 16 (September): 43. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-043.
- Karcher, Sebastian, Dessislava Kirilova, and Nicholas Weber. 2016. “Beyond the Matrix: Repository Services for Qualitative Data.” IFLA Journal 42 (4): 292–302. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035216672870. Ungated.
- Karcher, Sebastian, and David A. Steinberg. 2013. “Assessing the Causes of Capital Account Liberalization: How Measurement Matters.” International Studies Quarterly 57 (1): 128–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12001. Ungated. Data.
- Schneider, Ben Ross, and Sebastian Karcher. 2010. “Complementarities and Continuities in the Political Economy of Labor Markets in Latin America.” Socio-Economic Review 8 (4): 623–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwq022. Ungated.
Book Chapters and Other Publications
- Karcher, Sebastian, Dessi Kirilova, and Christiane Pagé. 2020. “Case Study: Sharing Qualitative Social Science Data.” In Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose: A Practical Approach for Research across the Social Sciences, by Michelle Salmona, Dan Kaczynski, and Eli Lieber, 226–34. Los Angeles: SAGE. Ungated.
- Gerring, John, Sebastian Karcher, and Brendan Apfeld. 2020. “Impact Metrics.” In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, edited by Colin Elman, James Mahoney, and John Gerring, 371–400. Strategies for Social Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762519.015.Ungated.
- Kapiszewski, Diana, and Sebastian Karcher. 2020. “Making Research Data Accessible.” In The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, edited by Colin Elman, James Mahoney, and John Gerring, 197–220. Strategies for Social Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762519.008. Ungated.
- Karcher, Sebastian. 2019. “Qualitative Data Repository: Case Study.” In Looking for Insight, Transformation, and Learning in Online Talk, by Trena M. Paulus and Alyssa Friend Wise. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Karcher, Sebastian, and Christiane Pagé. 2017. “Workshop Report: CAQDAS Projects and Digital Repositories’ Best Practices.” D-Lib Magazine 23 (3/4). https://doi.org/10.1045/march2017-karcher.
- Karcher, Sebastian. 2013. “Review of: Labor Relations in New Democracies: East Asia, Latin America and Europe by José A. Alemán .” Political Studies Review 11 (3): 421–421. https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12028_48.
- Thelen, Kathleen A, and Sebastian Karcher. 2013. “Resilience and Change in Federal Institutions: The Case of the German Federal Council.” In Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change, and the Varieties of Federalism, edited by Jörg Broschek and Arthur Benz, 117–39. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652990.003.0006.Ungated.
- Karcher, Sebastian, and Ben Ross Schneider. 2012. “Business Politics in Latin America: Investigating Structure, Preferences, and Influence.” In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics, edited by Peter R. Kingstone and Deborah J. Yashar, 273–84. New York, NY: Routledge. Republished in Spanish as:
- Schneider, Ben Ross, and Sebastian Karcher. 2012. “La Política de Las Empresas En Latinoamérica: Investigando Sus Estructuras, Preferencias e Influencia.” Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 39 (70): 7–28. https://doi.org/10.21678/apuntes.70.644.
- Karcher, Sebastian. 2011. “Ungleichheit Und Das Trilemma Lateinamerikanischer Arbeitsmärkte.” In Soziale Ungleichheiten in Lateinamerika: Neue Perspektiven Auf Wirtschaft, Politik Und Umwelt, edited by Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Ingrid Wehr, 179–200. Studien Zu Lateinamerika 10. Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845229614-179.
Work in Progress
- Crosas, Mercè, Julian Gautier, Sebastian Karcher, Dessi Kirilova, Gerard Otalora, and Abigail Schwartz. 2018. “Data Policies of Highly-Ranked Social Science Journals.” SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/9h7ay.
Pedagogical Writing
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Managing Qualitative Social Science Data: An Interactive Online Course (with Diana Kapiszewski, commissioned by the Social Science Resource Council). https://managing-qualitative-data.org/
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Author Carpentry: Open authoring and publishing. https://doi.org/10.7907/Z96H4FFZ (with Gail Clement and Tom Morrel)
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Mastering Zotero (with Rintze Zelle). Book Manuscript in progress: http://zotero-manual.github.io/zotero-manual/
Grants and Scholarships
- Empowering Open Law and Science (2020-2023), National Science Foundation. (PI, $218,851)
- Qualitative Data Repository (2019-2022), National Science Foundation (Co-PI, $1,667,886)
- Privacy Interoperability (2018-2022), Sloan Foundation, Subaward from the University of Washington, Seattle (Co-PI, $140,520)
- Teaching with Qualitative Data, CUSE Seed Grant, Syracuse University (PI, $5,000)
- Guest Scholar, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2010–2011
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship – Social Science Research Council, 2008–2009
Software Development
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Citation Style Language (CSL) – co-maintainer of the largest open source repository of automated citations styles (used in Zotero, Mendeley, Papers, etc.) www.citationstyles.org (XML, git).
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Zotero – co-maintainer, translator development and maintenance. (javascript)
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archivr. R-package for archiving weblinks. Co-author and maintainer
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Zotero-ODF-Scan. Zotero add-on for google docs and Scrivener integrations. Co-author. (javascript, some XUL)
Invited Talks and Workshops
- UC Merced
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Guttmacher Institute
- Universität Mannheim
- Albany University
- TU Delft
- University of Cincinnati
- The Ohio State University
- Caltech
- University of Kansas
- UW Seattle
Work Experience
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Course Design – In the Telling, LLC, Boulder CO, production of online courses (2014–2016).
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Workshop Facilitator for “Zotero Trainer” workshops. Workshops for librarians and others supporting Zotero at university libraries across the United States. http://www.zotero.org/support/training
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Teaching Assistant Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 2005–2009.
Membership in Professional Organizations
- IASSIST, RDA, RDAP, Force11, American Political Science Association, PAA
Professional Service
- Reviewer for International Studies Review, International Studies Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Development Studies, PLOS One, PeerJ Computer Science, and Business Politics.
- Grant review (panel), National Science Foundation
- Core Trust Seal Board of Reviewers
- Technical Steering Groups, Datacite
Languages
- German (native), English (functionally native), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese, French (reading, basic conversation), Latin (good reading).
Coding
- R, Javascript, python, git, xml/html