TY - ECHAP
KW - Documentation
KW - heritage
KW - metadata
KW - paradata
KW - practices
KW - processes
KW - visualisations
AU - Isto Huvila
AU - Marinos Ioannides
AU - Drew Baker
AU - Athos Agapiou
AU - Petros Siegkas
AB - Heritage visualisation has been one of the pioneers in acknowledging the imperative of paradata i.e. that of documenting not only the outputs of knowledge making but also the practices and processes, including decisions and intellectual work underpinning of how they came into being. However, even if the need and technical means to represent such information exist, the practical understanding of how to capture such information remain underdeveloped. The aim of this chapter is to delve into the imperative of paradata as a theoretical and practical challenge and to outline how to get grips with it: what is possible and how, and what is probably unachievable and why. A model of a process for identifying and acquiring usable paradata is outlined and major pitfalls of paradata generation, relating to non-actionable standards and exceeding data cleaning are discussed.
CY - Cham
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-78590-0_1
N2 - Heritage visualisation has been one of the pioneers in acknowledging the imperative of paradata i.e. that of documenting not only the outputs of knowledge making but also the practices and processes, including decisions and intellectual work underpinning of how they came into being. However, even if the need and technical means to represent such information exist, the practical understanding of how to capture such information remain underdeveloped. The aim of this chapter is to delve into the imperative of paradata as a theoretical and practical challenge and to outline how to get grips with it: what is possible and how, and what is probably unachievable and why. A model of a process for identifying and acquiring usable paradata is outlined and major pitfalls of paradata generation, relating to non-actionable standards and exceeding data cleaning are discussed.
PB - Springer Nature Switzerland
PP - Cham
PY - 2025
SN - 978-3-031-78590-0
SP - 1
EP - 11
TI - Imperative of Paradata
ER -