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 UniversitĂ  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

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.

Latest Publications

Documenting AI Use in Humanities Research
Huvila, I. (2025). Documenting AI Use in Humanities Research. In H. Verhagen, S. Tienken, A. Widholm, M. Fridlund, M. Nermo, & A. Blåder (Eds.), Huminfra 2025 (pp. 57–62). Stockholm: Stockholm University.
Letting AI Loose in an Archive: Technology to Manage or to Manage With
Huvila, I. (2025). Letting AI Loose in an Archive: Technology to Manage or to Manage With. Archiv, Theorie & Praxis, 75, 12–15.
Researchers Data Processing Descriptions–Understanding Paradata Creation Practices and Their Underpinning Instrumentalities
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., & Sköld, O. (2025). Researchers Data Processing Descriptions–Understanding Paradata Creation Practices and Their Underpinning Instrumentalities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(11), 1570–1590. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70003 (Original work published 2026)
Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., Friberg, Z., Liu, Y.-H., & Sköld, O. (2025). Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366564
Functions of Paradata in Data Papers
Ekman, S., Sköld, O., & Huvila, I. (2025). Functions of Paradata in Data Papers. Journal of Documentation, 81(7), 253–272. http://doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2024-0293 (Original work published 2026)

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Isto Huvila

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

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Ă…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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