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archival studies

Digitization and the Future of Archives

The aim of this IRFD Network Digitization and the Future of Archives (2018-2021), is to create a viable forum where Nordic, European and international researchers and practitioners can meet.

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Archiv

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 19:06
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'If we just knew who should do it', or the social organization of the archiving of archaeology in Sweden

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 08:45
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Another Wood Between the Worlds? Regimes of Worth and the Making of Meanings in the Work of Archivists

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:26
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The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of 'participation' in archival literature

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Wed, 03/04/2015 - 16:37
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Avtalen som hotar öppen vetenskap https://t.co/BasvIIiJOl #OA #openaccess

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) June 21, 2022

New article from #COSTARKWORK on Archaeological Practices and Societal Challenges published in @DeGruyterOpenArchaeology available #openaccess #OA at https://t.co/ZxnldCrQlm with @costisd @DeliaEnqvist @mtoumpouri pic.twitter.com/rlru6f1PiP

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) June 9, 2022

Forthcoming CAPTURE Talk online in November 16 at 1.15 pm CET by Isabel Eiser @unihh "D-WISE: With Manual and Digital Approaches towards a Tool Suite for Discourse Analysis” https://t.co/UUCbMZtfBV pic.twitter.com/DgLNRq1Vrr

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) June 3, 2022

Jack Andersen asking perhaps the most important question of them all at #colis11 pic.twitter.com/CHaB7MRbyI

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) June 1, 2022

A gap and bridging(?) at #colis11 (with credits to Brenda Dervin) pic.twitter.com/qmhVEiUoLx

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) May 30, 2022

#CfP Thematic issue n° 61 “Information practices : conceptual dynamics, methodological issues” in Études de communication https://t.co/048JT1itei #informationpractices DL abstracts June 30, full manuscript Dec 15

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Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society shows how the digitization of archaeological information, tools and workflows, and their interplay with both old and new non-digital practices throughout the archaeological information process, affect the outcomes of archaeological work, and in the end, our general understanding of the human past.

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CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) investigates what information about the creation and use of research data that is paradata) is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable in the future. 

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COST-ARKWORK

COST-ARKWORK is a network funded from 2016 to 2021 by the COST scheme that brings together the multidisciplinary work of researchers of archaeological practices in the field of archaeological knowledge production and use. The aim of the network is to make a major push forward in the current state-of-the-art in knowing how archaeological knowledge is produced, how it is used and how to maximise its positive impact in the society.

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About me

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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Recent posts

  • Gathering and following traces: towards a methodology of data reading
    1 week 3 days ago
  • Traces of digital archaeological practises
    1 week 3 days ago
  • Knowing, its traces and ingredients
    1 week 3 days ago
  • Interrogating paradata
    4 weeks ago
  • Extracting process information from archival records
    1 month 1 week ago
  • Digitala tjänster och deras informationsinnehåll är två olika saker
    1 month 1 week ago
  • Keynote: Document your information work! (But why?)
    1 month 4 weeks ago
  • Keynote: A Relational Information Science? For Networking, Sharing and Learning
    2 months ago
  • Behöver patienterna fungerande system eller nyttigt information — eller både och?
    2 months 2 weeks ago
  • In the Nexus of Knowledge Organisation and Digital Humanities
    3 months 1 week ago

Latest Publications

Archaeological Practices and Societal Challenges
Huvila, I., Dallas, C., Toumpouri, M., & Enqvist, D. (2022). Archaeological Practices and Societal Challenges. Open Archaeology, 8, 296-305. http://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0242 (Original work published jan)
COST-ARKWORK Societal Challenges Survey Dataset
Huvila, I., & Network, C. O. S. T. -A. R. K. W. O. R. K. (2022). COST-ARKWORK Societal Challenges Survey Dataset. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6563395 (Original work published may)
Information Behavior and Practices Research Informing Information Systems Design
Huvila, I., Enwald, H., Eriksson-Backa, K., Liu, Y. -H., & Hirvonen, N. (2022). Information Behavior and Practices Research Informing Information Systems Design. Jasist, 73(1057). http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24611
Technological and Informational Frames: Explaining Age-Related Variation in the Use of Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records as Technology and Information
Huvila, I., Cajander, Å., Moll, J., Enwald, H., Eriksson-Backa, K., & Rexhepi, H. (2022). Technological and Informational Frames: Explaining Age-Related Variation in the Use of Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records as Technology and Information. Information Technology & People, 35(8), 1-22. http://doi.org/10.1108/itp-08-2020-0566
Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes Towards Digital Health Services Among Finnish Older Adults
Eriksson-Backa, K., Ahmad, F., Huvila, I., Enwald, H., & Hirvonen, N. (2022). Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes Towards Digital Health Services Among Finnish Older Adults. (S. Kurbanoğlu, Špiranec, S., Unal, Y., Boustany, J., & Kos, D., Eds.). Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27

Forthcoming presentations

  • Techno-politics of the interoperability of archaeological data (work)
  • Traces of digital archaeological practises
  • Gathering and following traces: towards a methodology of data reading
  • Extracting process information from archival records
  • Behöver patienterna fungerande system eller nyttigt information — eller både och?
  • Panel: Information behaviour research in dialogue with neighbouring fields
  • Panel: Disinformation in the context of health information behaviour