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Paradata conveys understanding of workflows and facilitates reuse of research data in arts and humanities: the CAPTURE project

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The European Research Council funded research project CAPTURE has inquired into the previously relatively unexplored question of what information about the workflows of creation, management and use of research data is necessary for data to be reusable in the future. The cross-disciplinary multi-methods research underlines the risk of producing documentation that is of little use and the importance of focusing on making the already existing information findable, and generating new documentation only on such aspects of workflows that otherwise remain undocumented. The findings also underline differences in the perspectives of data creators, managers and users meaning that the documentation generated by data creators and kept in data repositories is not always well-understood and usable for data users. Finally, the work in CAPTURE project points to the need of conceptual clarity when discussing paradata both as a form of information or data on workflows, processes and practices, and as a framework concept to discuss how people inform and get inform about workflows, processes and practices in general.

Abstract (Swedish)

Det av Europeiska forskningsrådet finansierade forskningsprojektet CAPTURE har undersökt den relativt outforskade frågan om vilken information om arbetsflöden för skapande, hantering och användning av forskningsdata som är nödvändig för att data ska kunna återanvändas i framtiden. Denna tvärvetenskapliga forskning understryker risken med att producera dokumentation som är av liten nytta. Den betonar också vikten av att göra den redan existerande informationen sökbar och att endast generera ny dokumentation om sådana aspekter av arbetsflöden som annars förblir odokumenterade. Vidare understryker projektets resultat skillnader i perspektiven hos dataskapare, förvaltare och användare, vilket indikerar att den dokumentation som genereras av dataskapare och förvaras i dataarkiv inte alltid är väl förstådd och användbar för dataanvändare. Slutligen pekar arbetet i CAPTURE-projektet på behovet av begreppsmässig klarhet. Vi diskuterar paradata både som en form av information om arbetsflöden, processer och praktiker, och som ett ramverksbegrepp för att diskutera hur människor informerar och blir informerade om arbetsflöden, processer och praktiker.

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Translated title (Swedish)
Paradata förmedlar förståelse för arbetsflöden och underlättar återanvändning av forskningsdata inom humaniora: CAPTURE-projektet

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European Research Council
CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) 818210

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