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 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

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Latest Publications

The NORDeHEALTH 2022 Patient Survey: A Cross-Sectional Survey of National Patient Portal Users in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia (Preprint)
Hägglund, M., Kharko, A., Hagström, J., Bärkås, A., Blease, C., Cajander, Å., et al. (2023). The NORDeHEALTH 2022 Patient Survey: A Cross-Sectional Survey of National Patient Portal Users in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia (Preprint). Journal Of Medical Internet Research, 25, e47573. http://doi.org/10.2196/47573 (Original work published mar)
On Archives and User Participation in the Nordic Countries
Huvila, I. (2023). On Archives and User Participation in the Nordic Countries. In G. Bak & Rostgaard, M. (Eds.) (pp. 225-236). London: Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003325406-18
The Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology
Huvila, I. (2023). The Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology. In C. Gonzalez-Perez, Martin-Rodilla, P., & Pereira-Fariña, M. (Eds.) (pp. 115-136). Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37156-1_6
Errors, Omissions, and Offenses in the Health Record of Mental Health Care Patients: Results from a Nationwide Survey in Sweden
Bärkås, A., Kharko, A., Blease, C., Cajander, Å., Fagerlund, A., Huvila, I., et al. (2023). Errors, Omissions, and Offenses in the Health Record of Mental Health Care Patients: Results from a Nationwide Survey in Sweden. Journal Of Medical Internet Research, 25, e47841. http://doi.org/10.2196/47841 (Original work published nov)
Managing Information Gaps and Non-Information
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., Fulton, C., Haider, J., & Harviainen, T. (2023). Managing Information Gaps and Non-Information. Proceedings Of The Association For Information Science And Technology, 60, 793-798. http://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.863

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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  
Åbo 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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