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By Isto Huvila, 3 September, 2025

The book "Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use" is out now

The first comprehensive book-length volume on cross-disciplinary paradata research and practice for documenting data creation, curation and use based on the research conducted in the CAPTURE project is out open access via Cambridge University Press. 

By Isto Huvila, 13 June, 2024

Perspectives on paradata out soon

An edited volume "Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Process Knowledge" (eds. Huvila, Andersson & Sköld) with chapters describing paradata and paradata practices in a wide range of disciplines is coming out soon.
By Isto Huvila, 2 March, 2023

Review: Discovery systems - an opportunity and a threat? (Web-Scale Discovery Services)

I got already some time ago a copy of a great, concise volume on web-scale discovery services mailed to me (please, note the disclosure). The book is written by Roberto Raieli, librarian and library director working at the Sapienza Università di Roma (known of his previous infomative volume on multimedia information retrieval), translated from Italian by Elena Corradini and published in the Chandos Information Professional Series.
By Isto Huvila, 1 September, 2022

Outstanding paper award winner in the Journal of Documentation

The article "Documenting information making in archaeological field reports" reporting results from the CAPTURE project and published in the Journal of Documentation won the Outstanding Paper Award in the Emerald Literati 2022 Awards.

By Isto Huvila, 17 March, 2022

In the Nexus of Knowledge Organisation and Digital Humanities

Koraljka Golub and Yin-Hsang-Liu's recent edited volume "Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives" (Routledge 2021, available in open access) comes as an extremely timely contribution to bridge the gap between knowledge organisation and digital humanities fields.

By Isto Huvila, 1 March, 2022

Call for participants: CoLIS 11 Doctoral forum

CoLIS is a series of international conferences aiming to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of Library and Information Science, Information Studies, and related disciplines.

By Isto Huvila, 13 January, 2022

Come work with us in CAPTURE!

Come work with us! We are recruiting one more postdoc to CAPTURE-ERC project. If you are interested in doing research on research, research data, documentation, metadata, paradata or perhaps information modelling, submit an application no later than Feb 7, 2022.

By Isto Huvila, 26 October, 2021

Making and taking information

Information behavior theory covers different aspects of the totality of information-related human behavior rather unevenly. The transitions or trading zones between different types of information activities have remained perhaps especially under-theorized.

By Isto Huvila, 31 July, 2021

Call for papers for a special issue on Advances in Research on Information Creation at Library and Information Science Research

Guest Editors

  • Isto Huvila, Department of ALM, Uppsala University (isto.huvila@abm.uu.se)
  • Jennifer Douglas, School of Information, University of British Columbia, (jen.douglas@ubc.ca)
  • Tim Gorichanaz, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University (gorichanaz@drexel.edu)
  • Kyungwon Koh, School of Information Sciences, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (kkoh@illinois.
By Isto Huvila, 16 June, 2021

Standardisation, documentation and evolution of digital archaeological practices

The CAA 2021 roundtable session S04 on "Archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment" featured an impressive lineup of panelists with lightning talks.

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Forthcoming presentations

  • Keynote at Digital Heritage Summit 2026
  • Information practices are environmental
  • Session: Archaeological data work: Interdisciplinary perspectives to interdisciplinary practices
  • Tracing interdisciplinarities of archaeological data work: identifying and turning evidence visible

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Isto Huvila

(né Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Ã…bo Akademi University

Isto Huvila is working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are organisational information, social media, health, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.

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