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Archaeological information work and the digital turn

Author
Isto Huvila, Author
Lisa Börjesson, Author
Nicolo Dell'Unto, Author
Daniel Löwenborg, Author
Bodil Petersson, Author
Per Stenborg, Author
Isto Huvila, Editor
Abstract
Embracing digitality is to a large degree a question of competence of critically understanding a branch of technologies, their use, usefulness and direct and indirect cultural repercussions. It is fair to claim that both quantitatively and qualitatively, there is more archaeological and archaeologically relevant information than before and new copious possibilities to use and reuse, analyse and reanalyse this information. A vital aspect in the process is to maintain a critical sensitivity to the limits of both large and narrow categories and an understanding of their consequences to archaeological information work and the conduct of archaeology. This is a task of all archaeological information workers from field archaeologists to geographic information system specialists, curators and information managers, and obviously, especially those who are engaged in educating and training future generations of professionals.
Year of Publication
2018
Book Title
Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society
Number of Pages
143-158
Publisher
Routledge
City
London
Refereed Designation
Refereed
Taxonomy terms
archaeology
information work
digital
digitalisation
digital technologies
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Forthcoming presentations

  • Keynote at Digital Heritage Summit 2026
  • Information practices are environmental
  • Session: Archaeological data work: Interdisciplinary perspectives to interdisciplinary practices
  • Tracing interdisciplinarities of archaeological data work: identifying and turning evidence visible

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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  
Ã…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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