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By Isto Huvila, 2 March, 2023

Review: Discovery systems - an opportunity and a threat? (Web-Scale Discovery Services)

I got already some time ago a copy of a great, concise volume on web-scale discovery services mailed to me (please, note the disclosure). The book is written by Roberto Raieli, librarian and library director working at the Sapienza Università di Roma (known of his previous infomative volume on multimedia information retrieval), translated from Italian by Elena Corradini and published in the Chandos Information Professional Series.
By Isto Huvila, 24 May, 2020

Information science should be amplifying contradictions, too

Recently, I happened to stumble upon an interesting piece, written by Amanda Ripley already for a couple of years ago, on how journalists should start making a push to present the complexity of the matters they are reporting -- and stop trying to simplify everything to death. Extreme simplicity that has become the gold standard of how news stories and everything else is reported in the professional and social media alike needs to go away.

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Latest Publications

Effects of Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records on Nurses Work Environment: A Survey Study on Expectations in Sweden
Cajander, Å., Huvila, I., Salminen-Karlsson, M., Lind, T., & Scandurra, I. (2022). Effects of Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records on Nurses Work Environment: A Survey Study on Expectations in Sweden. Bmj Open, 12, e059188. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059188
Contract Archaeology
Huvila, I., & Börjesson, L. (2019). Contract Archaeology. (L. Börjesson & Huvila, I., Eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94177-6_6
Interrogating Paradata
Sköld, O., Börjesson, L., & Huvila, I. (2022). Interrogating Paradata. Information Reseach. Proceedings Of The 11Th International Conference On Conceptions Of Library And Information Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, May 29 - June 1, 2022, 27, paper colis2206. http://doi.org/10.47989/ircolis2206
Sharing Research Design, Methods and Process Information in and out of Academia
Huvila, I., & Sinnamon, L. (2022). Sharing Research Design, Methods and Process Information in and out of Academia. Proceedings Of The Association For Information Science And Technology, 59, 132-144. http://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.611
Citing Methods Literature: Citations to Field Manuals as Paradata on Archaeological Fieldwork
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., & Sköld, O. (2022). Citing Methods Literature: Citations to Field Manuals as Paradata on Archaeological Fieldwork. Information Research, 27(3), paper941. http://doi.org/10.47989/irpaper941

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Isto Huvila

(né Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Åbo Akademi University

Isto Huvila is working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are organisational information, social media, health, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.

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