Paradata

Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-36661-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten

To make sense of data and use it effectively, it is essential to know where it comes from and how it has been processed and used. This is the domain of paradata, an emerging interdisciplinary field with wide applications. As digital data rapidly accumulates in repositories worldwide, this comprehensive introductory book, the first of its kind, shows how to make that data accessible and reusable. In addition to covering basic concepts of paradata, the book supports practice with coverage of methods for generating, documenting, identifying and managing paradata, including formal metadata, narrative descriptions and qualitative and quantitative backtracking. The book also develops a unifying reference model to help readers contextualise the role of paradata within a wider system of knowledge, practices and processes, and provides a vision for the future of the field. This guide to general principles and practice is ideal for researchers, students and data managers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huvila, Isto

Andersson, Lisa

Skold, Olle

Friberg, Zanna

Liu, Ying-Hsang

Sköld, Olle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: paradata: documenting data creation, management and use Isto Huvila; 2. The concept of paradata Olle Sköld; 3. Paradata 'in the wild': how and where paradata emerges in research documentation Olle Sköld and Lisa Andersson; 4. Methods for generating and documenting paradata Ying-Hsang Liu and Isto Huvila; 5. Methods for identifying paradata for data reuse Ying-Hsang Liu and Isto Huvila; 6. Methods for managing paradata Zanna Friberg and Isto Huvila; 7. A paradata reference model Isto Huvila; 8. Future directions: making paradata matter Isto Huvila; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Friberg, Zanna
Zanna Friberg is a Ph.D. candidate in Information Studies at the Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums at Uppsala University. She holds a BA in archaeology and an MA in museum and cultural heritage studies. Some of her research interests include heritage collections, research data management, historical information systems and digitalisation in cultural heritage institutions.

Liu, Ying-Hsang
Ying-Hsang Liu is a researcher in the Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums at Uppsala University. He specialises in interactive information retrieval, focusing on AI in human-computer interaction, human-centred data science and knowledge organisation. His expertise spans the design and evaluation of search systems. He co-edited 'Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives' (2022).

Sköld, Olle
Olle Sköld is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums and the director of the Master's Programme in Digital Humanities at Uppsala University. His research is characterised by a broad interest in the ALM field, research data creation and use and digital humanities.

Huvila, Isto
Isto Huvila is Professor in Information Studies at the Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums at Uppsala University. He is an interdisciplinary information studies scholar who has given numerous talks and published widely on information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data and social and participatory information practices. He has edited and co-edited books on paradata, research outside the academy, archaeological information work and digital literacy.

Andersson, Lisa
Lisa Andersson is a researcher at the Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums at Uppsala University, where she received her master's degree in library and information science in 2011 and her doctoral degree in 2017. Her research focuses on data and information management, including research data and information management systems, knowledge organisation and data descriptions, data publishing and use. She has published in library and information science journals as well as in cross-disciplinary journals in the fields of archaeology and digital humanities.