#  Sebastian Karcher 

Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University.

 

 

 



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 I am the Associate Director of the [Qualitative Data Repository](https://qdr.syr.edu/) at Syracuse University. I work on all aspects of the repository, but am particularly interested in qualitative data management and the development of scholarly workflows. I hold a PhD in political science from Northwestern, where my substantive interests center around the political economy of business/labor relations in the Industrialized world as well as issues of conceptualization and measurement in political economy.

 As time permits, I am an active contributor to several scholarly open source software projects, including in particular [Zotero](http://www.zotero.org/), where I help oversee the [site translators](https://github.com/zotero/translators), and the [Citation Style Language](http://www.citationstyles.org/), where I am on the board and co-maintain the [style repository](https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/).