Étiquette : Isto Huvila

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Data Makers and Users’ Views on Useful Paradata. Priorities in Documenting Data Creation, Curation, Manipulation and Use in Archaeology

Authors : Isto Huvila, Lisa Andersson, Olle Sköld, Ying-Hsang Liu

Understanding and making data (re)usable requires adequate documentation of the data but also information on how it has been created, curated, manipulated and used, termed in data documentation literature as paradata. This paper reports results of a survey study (N=91) of data creating and (re)using archaeologists’ views of what data creation, curation, manipulation and use related information (termed here as paradata) they consider important when they are working with data. Data makers’ and users’ perceptions align to a considerable degree.

It is important to have an explanation of the original general context of data creation and knowing the purpose, procedures and methods of data making, analysis and documentation. The findings underline that there is a need to continue developing and testing ideas how to capture and document paradata, and to find ways how to help data makers adopt proven practices to facilitate paradata making.

Simultaneously, it is crucial that the paradata aimed at facilitating data use is relevant for data users rather than, for instance, technical or administrative details considered useful primarily by data makers.

URL : Data Makers and Users’ Views on Useful Paradata. Priorities in Documenting Data Creation, Curation, Manipulation and Use in Archaeology

DOI : https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v19i1.892

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When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data-driven, non-data, and data-decentered cultures

Authors : Isto Huvila, Luanne S. Sinnamon

Contemporary research and innovation policies and advocates of data-intensive research paradigms continue to urge increased sharing of research data. Such paradigms are underpinned by a pro-data, normative data culture that has become dominant in the contemporary discourse. Earlier research on research data sharing has directed little attention to its alternatives as more than a deficit. The present study aims to provide insights into researchers’ perspectives, rationales and practices of (non-)sharing of research data in relation to their research practices.

We address two research questions, (RQ1) what underpinning patterns can be identified in researchers’ (non-)sharing of research data, and (RQ2) how are attitudes and data-sharing linked to researchers’ general practices of conducting their research. We identify and describe data-decentered culture and non-data culture as alternatives and parallels to the data-driven culture, and describe researchers de-inscriptions of how they resist and appropriate predominant notions of data in their data practices by problematizing the notion of data, asserting exceptions to the general case of data sharing, and resisting or opting out from data sharing.

URL : When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data-driven, non-data, and data-decentered cultures

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24957