As in other social science disciplines, in educational research, there is a growing demand for more transparency throughout the research cycle (van der Zee & Reich, 2018). Data archiving, sharing, and re-use are at the center of these discussions. Against this background, more and more educational data are made available for secondary analyses. This holds for quantitative but also more and more for qualitative data. Data sharing is also increasingly important to meet the requirements of scientific funders and journals (Logan, Hart, & Schatschneider, 2021). In order to provide high-quality data with re-use potential, data curators play a crucial role. This contribution will outline specific challenges that researchers face when sharing their data. It will elaborate on how data curators can support them in overcoming these challenges. In a final part, the benefits for researchers of sharing and having data professionally curated are outlined.

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