News
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Field manuals instruct, prescribe and describe archaeological research work
A new article by Isto and Olle has been published in the Journal of Information Science reporting a study of archaeological field manuals as carriers of paradata.
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CAPTURE Talk with Åsa Berggren
Åsa Berggren from Lund University holds a CAPTURE talk online and in Uppsala.
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CAPTURE is hiring 1-2 researchers or postdocs
CAPTURE project is hiring 1-2 new senior researchers or postdocs.
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Materials from Information Science Perspectives to Documenting Processes and Practices
Materials from the Information Science Perspectives to Documenting Processes and Practices conference are available on CAPTURE website.
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Successful archiving and management of paradata depends on your paradata-in-hand
Zanna and Isto are presenting at CAA 2023 conference in Amsterdam a paper on management and archiving of paradata.
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CAPTURE is hiring 1-2 research associates
CAPTURE is hiring 1-2 postdoctoral research associates (part-time or full-time). Deadline Dec 2, 2022.
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D-WISE: With Manual and Digital Approaches towards a Tool Suite for Discourse Analysis
Next CAPTURE Talk #5 on Nov 16, 2022 online at 1.15 pm CET with Isabel Eiser from the University of Hamburg.
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CfP: Archiving information on archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment: workflows, paradata and beyond
Jessica, Isto and CAPTURE are organising a session at the forthcoming CAA 2023 conference in collaboration with CAASIG ARKWORK on archiving information on archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment.
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Oct 12, 2022 Workshop Tracking down scholarly research processes
CAPTURE organises a workshop on Tracking down scholarly research processes on Oct 12, 2022 in Uppsala.
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Outstanding paper in the Journal of Documentation
The CAPTURE article "Documenting information making in archaeological field reports" published in the Journal of Documentation won an Outstanding Paper Award in the Emerald Literati 2022 Awards.
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Traces, interoperability and data work
During the summer, Isto has presented fresh results from CAPTURE at EASST and CAA conferences, and one article with an analysis an excavation dataset has been published in KULA journal.
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Interrogating paradata at CoLIS11 conference
Isto presented a paper scoping the concept of paradata by Olle, Lisa and Isto at CoLIS11 conference in Oslo.
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Improving the usefulness of research data with better paradata
A new article on the premises of documenting research processes and paradata from CAPTURE published open access in Open Information Science.
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CAPTURE is hiring 1-2 postdoctoral research associates
CAPTURE is hiring 1-2 postdoctoral research associates for temporary positions of 12 months (part-time or full-time 50-100%). Deadline May 16, 2022.
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Documenting and making sense of digital research processes: findings from an international survey of archaeologists
Isto will outline first findings from a survey study of archaeologists at the Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries 2022 conference in Uppsala.
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Call for papers: Traces of digital archaeological practises
CAPTURE members are organising a session relating to traces of archaeological practices at the forthcoming CAA 2022 conference. Call for papers is open until March 21, 2022.
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Choreographies and Archaeological Data Making
Isto's and Olle's new article "Choreographies of Making Archaeological Data" (available in Open Access) was published a couple of days ago in Open Archaeology.
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Open postdoctoral fellow position
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.
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Panel: Documenting information processes and practices: paradata, provenance metadata, life-cycles and pipelines @ ASIST-AM
Isto and Olle are a part of the panel "Documenting information processes and practices: #paradata, provenance metadata, life-cycles and pipelines” at the ASIS&T 2021 Annual Meeting together with colleagues from the US. The paper for the panel can be found (for subscribers so far) at doi.org/10.1002/pra2.509.
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New article: The politics of paradata in documentation standards and recommendations for digital archaeological visualisations
A new article reporting findings from CAPTURE project Lisa Börjesson and Olle Sköld and Isto Huvila. (2020). The politics of paradata in documentation standards and recommendations for digital archaeological visualisations. Digital Culture and Society , 6 (2), 191–220 was recently published in the journal Digital Culture and Society.
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Come work with us! Two open postdoctoral positions in CAPTURE
CAPTURE (ERC-CoG) project is hiring two two-year postdocs https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=399145 One of the positions is in archaeology or related discipline, and one in information studies, LIS, archival studies, information science, science and technology studies or similar.
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New article: Documenting information making in archaeological field reports
New article on how information making is documented in archaeological field reports published in the Journal of Documentation.
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Seminar: Research data and research documentation – what, why and how?
A research seminar that focuses on research data and research documentation. We will take a look at legislation and university requirements as well as the infrastructures provided for data management and archiving.
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Understanding masking in scholarly data publishing and reuse @ DS2 conference
Zanna, Olle, Lisa and Isto are presenting a paper titled "Understanding masking in scholarly data publishing and reuse: An exploratory study of practices relating to obscurities in archaeological data" at DS2 conference.
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CAPTURE Talk with Sarah Callaghan
Dr Sarah Callaghan, Editor-in-Chief of Patterns, a journal devoted to sharing data science solutions across domain boundaries (www.cell.com/patterns) talks about Frontiers in data publishing on March 23 at 2.15 pm CET.
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Dealing with legacy data @ COST-ARKWORK Final Conference
Zanna and Lisa presented Zanna's ongoing work on archaeological legacy data in an interview at COST-ARKWORK Final Conference.
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Survey: Have you ever created or used archaeological data?
Participate in a survey at https://sunet.artologik.net/uu/Survey/271 to make a push towards easier-to-use archaeological data by telling us what you need to know about data to be able to (re)use it effectively.
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Roundtable on paradata at CAA 2021
CAPTURE is organising a roundtable discussion on paradata at the forthcoming Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2021 organised online by Cyprus University of Technology.
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What do you need to know about information making to understand if it's credible?
Isto's paper that looks into what we need to know about information making to assess its credibility has been published in Information Research.
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Join Workshop on Capturing Research Data Creation and Use
CAPTURE research project invites everyone interested in research data, data creation, use and documentation in a half-day online workshop on Capturing Research Data Creation and Use on Nov 24, 2020 starting at 9.00 am (CET).
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Is there Paradata? A CRMdig-Supported Mapping of Provenance and Process Information in Archaeological Datasets
Today Olle spoke about paradata in archaeological data papers at the Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Nordic 2020 conference. With writing assitance from Lisa and Isto, the talk continued the exploration of how paradata is created and described as a part of archaeological data-management practices. In focus of was among other things how authors of data papers argue for the resuability of the datasets they've published, and how this can be thought about from the viewpoint of 'publication thresholds'. A publication threshold can be understood as the demarcation line that separates datasets that are considered to be publishable for the purposes pf resuse from those that are not, and which reusability arguments carry the most and the least weight in such assessments.
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And every FAIR from FAIR sometimes declines? Tracking the rise of paradata to increase data sustainability
It is possible to argue that it is the 'R' in 'FAIR', standing for reusability, that makes the Findable, Accessible, and Interoperable worth the effort. Does it need to be, as Shakespeare writes, that every fair from fair sometime declines? What can be done to slower down the (perhaps inevitable) decline of data reusability? These multiplex questions were in focus of Olle's and Lisa's talk on the European Association of Archaeologists' (EAA) 2020 conference in late August. The premise of the talk was that the intellectual horizons of primary and secondary data usage can be to some extent merged if repository users are supplied with auxiliary paradata about the processes and tools involved in creating the data, and this premise was investigated on the basis of a pilot study of paradata in archaeological data papers. The EAA 2020 conference was most exciting and the data-papers pilot study proved promising—it will likely be further developed in future CAPTURE activities and publications.
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Talk: Archiving realtime archaeological (para)data or archiving archaeological (para)data realtime?
Isto's talk "Archiving realtime archaeological (para)data or archiving archaeological (para)data realtime?" held in April 2019 at Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA) in Krakow is now vieweable online at https://youtu.be/_3Rp0UsCA-E thanks to Doug Rocks-Macqueen who has been filming CAA and other archaeology conference presentations for years now and made them available on YouTube on the Recording archaeology channel. Slides to Isto's talk can be found at istohuvila.se.
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Choreographies and paradata
Processes can be usefully understood by using many different concepts and metaphors. Isto participated in a session in mid-August held at the joint 4S/EASST Science and technology Studies conference with a focus on the notion of choreographies. The focal point of the talk was how information and data making procedures can be understood and explicated from the perspective of choreographies and what implications this has on their documentation.
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What makes people tick when it comes to paradata?
In times of cancellations and re-scheduling CAPTURE has managed to realize two of the spring’s key events in the last week: the project’s inaugural Advisory board meeting and a joint seminar with a highly topical project at Uppsala University: URDAR.
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New date for CAPTURE workshop Nov 24
The workshop planned for April 20 is rescheduled to Nov 24, 2020. CAPTURE invites researchers and practitioners interested in research data management and documentation to a full-day workshop in Uppsala to discuss paradata and provenance, documentation of research data and research data creation and use in archaeology and beyond.
The workshop approaches the paradox that we might know a lot about research data in different domains but not that much about how it came into being from different perspectives relating to multi-disciplinary research on research data and documentation. Documenting the origins and different processes related to working with and using research data, and collecting and preserving provenance metadata and paradata alongside with metadata has proven to be a difficult task.
More information will be available here closer to the date. Stay tuned.
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Paradata – can you tell us what it is? Latest news from ERC CAPTURE
Our on-going work is featured in a piece written by Lisa for the Digital Humanities Uppsala blog.
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CAPTURE is recruiting a doctoral student
One of the two currently open doctoral student positions at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University is affiliated with the CAPTURE projects.
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Save the date! Workshop on Capturing Research Data Creation and Use, April 20, 2020 in Uppsala
Research project CAPTURE invites researchers and practitioners interested in research data management and documentation to a full-day workshop in Uppsala on April 20, 2020 to discuss paradata and provenance, documentation of research data and research data creation and use.
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CAPTURE in workshops
Olle, Lisa and Isto are talking about CAPTURE project and our on-going work during the spring in a few different workshops and conferences including
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Shifting grounds of archaeological documentation
Isto and Lisa participated in the On shifting grounds – the study of archaeological practices in a changing world Conference 3-5 October 2019 in Rethymnon, Crete.
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CAPTURE is hiring 1-3 postdoctoral research associates in information studies
The position is within a five year research project (part or full time). Start date August 1, 2019 or according to agreement. Information about the Department of ALM and research conducted there can be found at http://www.abm.uu.se/. The position is within the project CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) financed by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (ERC-COG).
Read the announcement at uu.se/jobb