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By Isto Huvila, 3 September, 2025

The book "Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use" is out now

The first comprehensive book-length volume on cross-disciplinary paradata research and practice for documenting data creation, curation and use based on the research conducted in the CAPTURE project is out open access via Cambridge University Press. 

By Isto Huvila, 13 June, 2024

Perspectives on paradata out soon

An edited volume "Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Process Knowledge" (eds. Huvila, Andersson & Sköld) with chapters describing paradata and paradata practices in a wide range of disciplines is coming out soon.
By Isto Huvila, 1 September, 2022

Outstanding paper award winner in the Journal of Documentation

The article "Documenting information making in archaeological field reports" reporting results from the CAPTURE project and published in the Journal of Documentation won the Outstanding Paper Award in the Emerald Literati 2022 Awards.

By Isto Huvila, 13 January, 2022

Come work with us in CAPTURE!

Come work with us! We are recruiting one more postdoc to CAPTURE-ERC project. If you are interested in doing research on research, research data, documentation, metadata, paradata or perhaps information modelling, submit an application no later than Feb 7, 2022.

By Isto Huvila, 26 October, 2021

Making and taking information

Information behavior theory covers different aspects of the totality of information-related human behavior rather unevenly. The transitions or trading zones between different types of information activities have remained perhaps especially under-theorized.

CAPTURE

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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