Concluding Discussion: Paradata for Information and Knowledge Management

Isto Huvila (), Lisa Andersson () and Olle Sköld ()
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Isto Huvila: Uppsala University
Lisa Andersson: Uppsala University
Olle Sköld: Uppsala University

A chapter in Perspectives on Paradata, 2024, pp 249-264 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This concluding chapter draws together insights from the discipline-specific chapters to contrast and synthesise the diverse approaches to how the concept of paradata is conceptualised and used in the different cases covered in the volume “Perspectives to paradata”. Paradata as a concept that refers to process information resides firmly at the fringe of codified knowledge and organisational learning. Many different forms of information can function as paradata. There is a comparable variety in how the concept of paradata is understood. Due to the variety, having a unified definition can be debated. Major opportunities with paradata range from achieving reproducibility in data analysis and use and delivering the desired outcomes of the Open movement to increasing algorithmic and administrative accountability and transparency of artificial intelligence. However, transparency brought by paradata is not automatically virtuous. Paradata ethics and its relation to general information and knowledge management ethics is central to responsible use of paradata. Besides further inquiry into paradata concept, actual instances of paradata in the wild and how they are linked to social action, it is a key area that requires further research.

Keywords: Paradata; Concepts; Practices; Ethics; Knowledge management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6_14

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