Webinar: Meet the Author: Perspectives on Paradata Research and Practice of Documenting Process Knowledge
This webinar gathers editors and authors of the open access edited volume Perspectives on paradata (Springer 2024) to discuss why and how it is crucial to know what data is about and where it originates in the contemporary rapidly datafying society. The chapters in the volume and the brief talks by chapter authors provide unique insight in to new theorizing, empirical research, and the formation of new technologies, standards, practices, and concepts to ensure the availability of adequate 'paradata' – data on the making and processing of data. The webinar and the edited volume provide a first cross-disciplinary overview of perspectives on the concept and phenomenon of paradata and its implications for research and practice.
Presenters
Professor Isto Huvila
Professor Isto Huvila holds the chair in information studies at the Department of ALM at Uppsala University in Sweden. His primary areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices. He is widely known for his ground-breaking work on, among others, paradata and participatory archives. Huvila's work has been funded, among others, by the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Academy of Finland and he has given numerous invited talks and published broadly on the topics ranging from information work management, archaeological information management, social media, virtual reality information issues to archival studies and museum informatics, and health information. He received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.
Sarah Buchanan
Sarah Buchanan is an associate professor at the University of Missouri serving as lead faculty in Archival Studies. Her dissertation investigated archaeological curation in the field and for storytelling purposes, and subsequent work has focused on provenance research methods and the preservation of audiovisual collections.
James A. Hodges
James A. Hodges studies the evidentiary value of digital objects. He is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Information at San Jose State University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography and Senior Book Reviews Editor for the journal Information & Culture.
Alexandria Rayburn
Alexandria Rayburn is an assistant professor in the LIS program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She previously received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research investigates data practices in library, archive, and museum collections, specifically examining how various communities create digital systems that are sustainable and resistant to the oppressive harms embedded in our society.
Andrea Thomer
Dr. Andrea Thomer is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona College of Information Science, where she studies and develops knowledge infrastructures. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Thomer earned her doctorate at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2017. She has worked with natural science collections communities for almost 20 years.
Olle Sköld
Dr. Olle Sköld is an associate professor at the Department of ALM, where he also serves as the head of department. Sköld's research is characterised by a broad interest in the ALM field, research data creation and use, videogames and digital humanities.
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