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Information literacy as thing, as power, as something else? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
The information literacy track of the CoLIS 8 conference has presented a number of interesting papers on studying and conceptualising various forms of information literacies in different contexts. re...
Around information? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
Luciano Floridi's claim that Plato is the best guide to the problems with Big Data was in many ways exemplary of my souveniers of this years CoLIS 8 conference (in Copenhagen) so far. Many presenters ...
Review of Information Services and Digital Literacy: In Search of the Boundaries of Knowing 12 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
A review by Lynn Allardyce Irvine (Library Review, 2013, Vol. 62 Iss: 6/7) of my book "Information Services and Digital Literacy: In Search of the Boundaries of Knowing": "Huvila’s book is a stimulat...
Where the things come from we learn at museums? 27 Jun 2013 | 07:36 pm
My article "How a Museum Knows? Structures, Work Roles, and Infrastructures of Information Work" on information work at museum(s) was recently published in JASIST. The idea and interest to the study i...
Sorting the metaverse out and how metaverse is sorting us out 27 May 2013 | 11:37 pm
A new book chapter "Sorting the metaverse out and how metaverse is sorting us out" I wrote on how virtual worlds and metaverse are organising us, is out in the The Immersive Internet: Reflections on t...
Archaeological 3D documentation, modelling, reconstructions and analysis in Dec 2013 in Lund 26 Apr 2013 | 10:45 pm
ARKDIS project organises in association with the Swedish chapter (CAA-SE) of the international Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology (CAA) organisation and Lund Humanities Lab ...
On the evaluation of sites and monuments - and information 9 Apr 2013 | 08:25 pm
Evaluation, valorisation, appraisal and related judgments of archaeological and other sites and monuments is a tricky question. The Finnish National Board of Antiquities and Archaeology, University of...
Archiving and archaeological archives 19 Mar 2013 | 12:49 am
The Swedish partner of the ARCHES project, the Swedish National Heritage Board (RAÄ) organised today a workshop on archaeological archives and archiving in Stockholm. The workshop gathered 25'ish part...
PhD student position in ARKDIS research project 13 Mar 2013 | 10:54 am
Open PhD student position in ARKDIS research project at the Department of ALM (Archival Science, Library and Information Science, Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies), Uppsala University. Applica...
Research on Archaeological information in the digital society (ARKDIS) 13 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
Digitisation of archaeological information and cultural heritage assets has been one of the cornerstones of the digital society debate. However, at the same time when nations have made considerable ...
