TY - JOUR
AU - Stefan Ekman
AU - Olle Sköld
AU - Isto Huvila
AB - The purpose of this article is to increase our understanding of data papers as research narratives, with a focus on the functions that paradata — information about data creation and management processes and their underlying reasons — have, apart from describing data processes.,Seven papers from archaeological data journals were selected based on the number of citations they have received specifically for the use of their associated data. The paradata in the seven papers were analysed through close readings of them as narratives, and prominent functions were identified and examined.,Three expressive paradata functions were found in the data paper narratives, contributing to the papers  arguments for the usefulness of the datasets, to the tone of the data papers and to the papers  construction of credibility.,We are aware of no previous studies of paradata as part of data paper narratives or of any studies of data papers employing close reading as an analytical tool.
BT - Journal of Documentation
DA - jun
DO - 10.1108/JD-11-2024-0293
IS - 7
M1 - 7
N2 - The purpose of this article is to increase our understanding of data papers as research narratives, with a focus on the functions that paradata — information about data creation and management processes and their underlying reasons — have, apart from describing data processes.,Seven papers from archaeological data journals were selected based on the number of citations they have received specifically for the use of their associated data. The paradata in the seven papers were analysed through close readings of them as narratives, and prominent functions were identified and examined.,Three expressive paradata functions were found in the data paper narratives, contributing to the papers  arguments for the usefulness of the datasets, to the tone of the data papers and to the papers  construction of credibility.,We are aware of no previous studies of paradata as part of data paper narratives or of any studies of data papers employing close reading as an analytical tool.
PY - 2025
SP - 253
EP - 272
T2 - Journal of Documentation
TI - Functions of Paradata in Data Papers
VL - 81
SN - 1758-7379
ER -