Course contents: An advanced level course on theories, methods and practices of information management, records management, digitalisation of information resources, digital information, information systems, collaboration and information architecture.
Institution: Åbo Akademi University. Spring 2005- (Spring 2005-Spring 2008 together with Kim Holmberg).
ArchivesNext raised a number of interesting points about the nature of participation in a participatory archive in a thought provoking blog post on building participatory archives.
My article Semantiska wiki som digitala arkivsystem: samlingar, ärendehantering och deltagande has been published in Informaatiotutkimus, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Finnish Association for Information Research.
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The Swedish language edition of the book (originally written in Swedish and Finnish) of Library 2.0 - A new participatory context research group is available at the bookshop near you.
Av Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Kim Holmberg, Isto Huvila, Maria Kronqvist-Berg och Outi Nivakoski
I was last week on wednesday and thursday (9-10/12) at DISH 2009 (DIgital Strategies for Heritage) conference in Rotterdam. My own presentation Participatory management of heritage assets (presentation also attached to this article) discussed participation, strategies and critical success factors for engaging users and experts vs. amateurs dichotomy.
(né Isto Vatanen)
PD, forskarassistent
Ph.D., Post-Doc Research Fellow
Department of ALM
Uppsala University
Ph.D., adjunct researcher
Department of Information Studies
Åbo Akademi University
Isto Huvila is researcher and lecturer 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 virtual worlds, Web 2.0, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.
