CAPTURE
CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE)
We might have enough data about data but not a good enough understanding of how the data came about. CAPTURE investigates what information about the creation and use of research data that is paradata) is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable in the future. The wickedness of the problem lies in the practical impossibility to document and keep everything and the difficulty to determine how to capture just enough.
The empirical focus of CAPTURE is archaeological and cultural heritage data, which stands out by its extreme heterogeneity and rapid accumulation due to the scale of ongoing development-led archaeological fieldwork. Within and beyond this specific context, CAPTURE develops an in-depth understanding of how paradata is being created and used today, elicits methods for capturing paradata, tests new methods in field trials, and synthesises the findings in a reference model to inform the capturing of paradata and enabling data-intensive research using heterogeneous research data stemming from diverse origins.
The project is directed by professor Isto Huvila
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No 818210.


Publications
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A Fieldwork Manual as a Regulatory Device: Instructing, Prescribing and Describing Documentation Work
2023
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Conceptualizing Data Needs within Contexts of Data Discoverability and Reuse: A Study of Environmental and Social Scientists
2023
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Data Papers as Documentation of Research Processes and Practices
2023
News
- Field manuals instruct, prescribe and describe archaeological research work
- CAPTURE Talk with Åsa Berggren
- CAPTURE is hiring 1-2 researchers or postdocs
- Materials from Information Science Perspectives to Documenting Processes and Practices
- Successful archiving and management of paradata depends on your paradata-in-hand
@CAPTURE_ERC
- RT by @CAPTURE_ERC: CAPTURE Talk #7 Nov 29, 2023 online at 1.15 pm CEST by Loes Opgenhaffen (Saxon University of Applied Sciences) - Paradata as protocol. Mapping archaeological practice with the Tradition in Transition methodology. Free registration at https://www.abm.uu.se/forskning/pagaende-forskningsprojekt/capture/events/CAPTURE+Talks/ 2023-10-12
- @CAPTURE_ERC and @asist_ec joint event IST23: Information Science Perspectives to Documenting Processes and Practices was recognised as the @asist_org Chapter event of the year at #asist23 annual meeting https://www.abm.uu.se/research/Ongoing+Research+Projects/capture/events/conference--information-science-perspectives-to-documenting-processes-and-practices/ Thank you for wonderful collaboration! 2023-10-30
- CAPTURE work at #asist23 2023-10-30