...Isto Huvila Purpose This article explores the ethical and practical complexities of documenting data creation processes using paradata in research documentation. While transparency is essential for making data truly FAIR, the recent paradata literature has acknowledged that radical openness can...

...-documentation standards cover and conceptualise data-related processes (i.e. paradata). Design/methodology/approach A set of nine major general domain-agnostic research data standards (Data Package, DataCite Metadata Schema, Dublin Core, OAI-ORE, PREMIS CERIF, DDI, PROV, NetCDF) were analysed using close...

...Stefan Ekman; Olle Sköld; Isto Huvila Purpose The purpose of this article is to increase our understanding of data papers as research narratives, with a focus on the functions that paradata – information about data creation and management processes and their underlying reasons – have, apart from...

..., processing and documentation and output) is developed. The workflow facilitates the study of historical information creation processes based on paradata analysis and targets the cognitive processes that precede and accompany the creation of historical data collections. Findings The proposed upcycling...