@article{260,
  author = {Isto Huvila and Olle Sköld},
  title = {A Fieldwork Manual as a Regulatory Device: Instructing, Prescribing and Describing Documentation Work},
  abstract = {Research on how archaeological fieldwork manuals, a sub-category of methods handbooks, regulate research documentation is limited. Qualitative content analysis of 25 English-language archaeological field manuals from the early 1900s to 2010s showed that they instruct how to describe the documentation work, prescribe practices and workflows, and function as often pre-coordinated descriptions of work. A manual forms a  working space  that is sometimes adopted as such by following the detailed advice given in some of the texts but likely more often used as a more general point of reference. The fact that many manuals do not provide exact recipes for the fieldwork as a whole means that they function as comprehensive representations and documentation (paradata) of actual fieldwork practices only when read in parallel with field documentation.},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Journal of Information Science},
  volume = {52},
  pages = {615–630},
  month = {10/2023},
  issn = {0165-5515, 1741-6485},
  doi = {10.1177/01655515231203506},
}