Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Σημειώσεις πεδίου	Ημερολόγιο Έρευνας
Πεδίο	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	Late 19th century (formalized in 20th century)	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology
Δημιουργός	Rooted in 19th-century anthropology and sociology; systematized by ethnographers such as Bronislaw Malinowski and later Robert Emerson et al.	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)
Τύπος	Qualitative data collection and recording technique	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226206813	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	fieldnotes, observational notes, ethnographic notes, jottings	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Field notes are detailed written records created by researchers during or immediately after direct observation in a naturalistic setting. They capture what is seen, heard, and experienced — including behaviors, interactions, physical environments, and the researcher's own analytic impressions — forming the primary data source for ethnographic and observational studies.	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.