Changing publishing cultures in humanities

By Isto Huvila, 17 June, 2011

I was last week participating  as one of the 19 grantees in the European Science Foundation Humanities Spring workshop on  changing publishing cultures in humanities organised by An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth in Ireland. We were a good group from around the Europe representing a variety of humanities disciplines from history, archaeology, linguistics and literature to digital humanities, and yes, for sure, information science. In spite of the rather diverse backgrounds, it was quite refreshing to talk with people who were apparently concerned with similar kinds of things and for real, thought about the future of publishing, scholarly communication and information dissemination in the different fields of humanities. Apart from the often very sharp and to the point discussions we had an opportunity to listen to a number of invited speakers including Gudrun Gersmann from the German Historical Institute (Paris) to Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin), Karen Skovgaard-Petersen (The Royal Library, Copenhagen) and Péter Dávidházi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The main point of the workshop was not to really the already existing examples, but I must admit that this was the first time I heard about a print version of an electronic journal (from Denis Fomin-Nilov, Russian Academy of Sciences), Storify.com (credits to whom deserve them) and recensio.net.

 

There will be more about the results of the discussions later this year in form of a manifesto. Stay tuned.

Latest Publications

Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Data Processes
Huvila, I. ., Andersson, L. ., & Sköld, O. . (Eds.). (2024). Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Data Processes. Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6
An Introduction to Paradata
Andersson, L. ., Huvila, I. ., & Sköld, O. . (2024). An Introduction to Paradata. In I. . Huvila, L. . Andersson, & O. . Sköld (Eds.) (Vol. 13, pp. 1–14). Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6_1
Dokumentation av arkeologiska arbetsprocesser underlättar framtida återanvändning av forsknings- och undersökningsdata: CAPTURE-projektet
Huvila, I. ., Juneström, A. ., Kaiser, J. ., & Sköld, O. . (2024). Dokumentation av arkeologiska arbetsprocesser underlättar framtida återanvändning av forsknings- och undersökningsdata: CAPTURE-projektet. Gjallarhorn, 43, 28–32.
Introduction: Information Matters Special Issue on Collaborative Interpretation
Huvila, I. ., c, M. ., Chen, A. ., Chassanoff, A. ., & Hodges, J. . (2024). Introduction: Information Matters Special Issue on Collaborative Interpretation. Rochester, NY. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4865526 (Original work published 2024)
Concluding Discussion: Paradata for Information and Knowledge Management
Huvila, I. ., Andersson, L. ., & Sköld, O. . (2024). Concluding Discussion: Paradata for Information and Knowledge Management. In I. . Huvila, L. . Andersson, & O. . Sköld (Eds.) (pp. 249–264). Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6_14

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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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