Evaluation of what?

By Isto Huvila, 18 June, 2014

The theme of this year's LIDA conference is evaluation. At the moment, when the conference is still going on, it is possible to say that the variety of papers on both qualitative and quantitative evaluation has been interesting. Many of the speakers including the keynotes by Blaise Cronin and Paul Wouters have put a specific emphasis on the issues of discussing the question of what evaluation is actually evaluating and what would be the most appropriate thing to evaluate from different stakeholder perspectives. Cronin posed a serious question on the significance of Beethoven (traditionally significant person) or Bieber (popular person on the social web right now) and the premises of doing measurements. Wouters did another useful excursion to the foundations of evaluation as an activity, its premises and consequences.

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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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