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By Isto Huvila, 17 March, 2022

In the Nexus of Knowledge Organisation and Digital Humanities

Koraljka Golub and Yin-Hsang-Liu's recent edited volume "Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives" (Routledge 2021, available in open access) comes as an extremely timely contribution to bridge the gap between knowledge organisation and digital humanities fields.

By Isto Huvila, 5 January, 2020

Social tagging and commenting: theoretical perspectives

By Isto Huvila, 2 January, 2020

Rethinking context in information research: bounded versus centred sets

By Isto Huvila, 29 October, 2017

The meaning of interoperability and its implications for archival institutions: challenges and opportunities in {Croatia}, {Finland} and {Sweden}

By Isto Huvila, 29 April, 2015

Simplicity, complexity and complex easiness

People hate complex information systems for a good reason. Why on earth anyone should use a really annoying and difficult to grasp library catalogues when you have learned to appreciate the simplicity of the Google interface.

By Isto Huvila, 7 December, 2011

The Complete Information Literacy? Unforgetting Creation and Organisation of Information

By Isto Huvila, 8 June, 2009

Ecological framework of information interactions and information infrastructures

By Isto Huvila, 27 March, 2007

Affordances and Constraints in Knowledge Organization

By Isto Huvila, 4 March, 2007

The Ecology of Information Work: A Case of Bridging Archaeological Work and Virtual Reality Based Knowledge Organisation

knowledge organisation

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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