Olle Sköld
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of ALM; Undervisande personal och Forskare
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 89, +46 72 999 91 17
- E-mail:
- Olle.Skold@abm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
75313 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 625
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-0904-7222
Short presentation
Dr. Olle Sköld is Head of the Department at the Department of ALM and an associate professor in Library and Information Studies.
His research spans the ALM field, digital humanities, and documentation studies, with a particular focus on knowledge production in diverse contexts — from video gaming to scientific research.
Keywords
- digital humanities
- abm
- alm
- knowledge production
- arkiv
- archives
- informationspraktiker
- digital humaniora
- information practices
- documentation
- dokumentation
- forskningsdata
- research data
- online cultures
- videogames
- digital preservation
- kunskapsproduktion
- digitala kulturer
- videospel
- digitalt bevarande

Publications
Recent publications
Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use
Cambridge University Press, 2025
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Part of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, p. 1570-1590, 2025
- DOI for Researchers' data processing descriptions-Understanding paradata creation practices and their underpinning instrumentalities
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Paradata in data publishing: An analysis of methods information in data publishing metadata
Part of Kod & Kultur, p. 211-226, Uppsala University, 2025
Being literate in data or practices: how paradata functions in the context of literacy
Part of Information research, p. 408-423, 2025
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Functions of paradata in data papers
Part of Journal of Documentation, p. 253-272, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, p. 1570-1590, 2025
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Being literate in data or practices: how paradata functions in the context of literacy
Part of Information research, p. 408-423, 2025
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Functions of paradata in data papers
Part of Journal of Documentation, p. 253-272, 2025
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Part of International Journal of Digital Curation, 2025
- DOI for Data makers’ and users’ views on useful paradata: priorities in documenting data creation, curation, manipulation and use in archaeology
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User Needs in the Digital Archives of the Popular Movement
Part of Archives and Manuscripts, p. 73-95, 2024
Patterns in Paradata Preferences among the Makers and Reusers of Archaeological Data
Part of Data and Information Management, 2024
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Researching Informational Technologies of Trust: From Blockchain to Paradata and Digital Archives
Part of Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, p. 774-779, 2024
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Paradata Literacy and the Challenges of Research Data Management
Part of Informaatiotutkimus, p. 109-113, 2024
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Part of Gjallarhornet, p. 28-32, 2024
Layers upon layers: data sharing & reuse challenges in archaeological contexts
Part of Information research, p. 454-463, 2024
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Part of Journal of information science, 2023
- DOI for A Fieldwork Manual as a Regulatory Device: Instructing, Prescribing and Describing Documentation Work
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Archaeological information-making activities according to field reports
Part of Library & Information Science Research, 2022
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Part of KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, p. 1-18, 2022
- DOI for Re-purposing Excavation Database Content as Paradata: An Explorative Analysis of Paradata Identification Challenges and Opportunities
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Information needs on research data creation
Part of Information research, 2022
Part of Information research, 2022
Citing methods literature: citations to field manuals as paradata on archaeological fieldwork
Part of Information research, 2022
Documenting information making in archaeological field reports
Part of Journal of Documentation, p. 1107-1127, 2021
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Choreographies of Making Archaeological Data
Part of Open Archaeology, p. 1602-1617, 2021
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Part of Digital Culture & Society, p. 191-220, 2021
- DOI for The politics of paradata in documentation standards and recommendations for digital archaeological visualisations
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Part of Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, p. 604-609, 2021
- DOI for Documenting Information Processes and Practices: Paradata, Provenance Metadata, Life-Cycles and Pipelines
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Part of Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidskrift, p. 332-354, 2019
- DOI for Drawing Things Together: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of a Cross-LAM Approach to Digital Game Preservation and Exhibition
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Dokumentation av datorspelsgemenskaper: En sammanfattning
Part of Tidskrift för ABM, p. 18-39, 2018
Getting-to-Know: Inquiries, Sources, Methods, and the Production of Knowledge on a Videogame Wiki
Part of Journal of Documentation, p. 1299-1321, 2017
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Det svenska spelarvet: strategisk bevarandeplanering behövs i nationell strategi för spelindustrin
Part of Tidskrift för ABM, 2016
Part of Journal of Documentation, p. 294-316, 2015
- DOI for Documenting Virtual World Cultures: Memory-Making and Documentary Practices in the City of Heroes Community
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Tracing Traces: A Document-Centred Approach to the Preservation of Virtual World Communities
Part of Information research, 2013
The Effects of Virtual Space on Learning: A Literature Review
Part of First Monday, p. 4-4, 2012
Articles, review/survey
Part of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, p. 134-145, 2018
Books
Chapters in book
Paradata in data publishing: An analysis of methods information in data publishing metadata
Part of Kod & Kultur, p. 211-226, Uppsala University, 2025
Concluding Discussion: Paradata for Information and Knowledge Management
Part of Perspectives on Paradata, p. 249-264, Springer, 2024
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Part of Perspectives on Paradata, p. 1-14, Springer, 2024
Knowing-in-Practice, Its Traces and Ingredients
Part of The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory, p. 37-69, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
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Studying Games from the Viewpoint of Information
Part of Game Research Methods, p. 57-73, ETC Press, 2015
Information Phenomena in Multiplayer Game Related Social Media
Part of Social Information Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012
Collections (editor)
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
2018
Conference papers
Approaching gameplay process documentation
Part of Information Science Trends 2023, 2023
Part of IST23 Conference, 2023
- DOI for Conceptualizing Data Needs within Contexts of Data Discoverability and Reuse: A Study of Environmental and Social Scientists
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Data Papers as Documentation of Research Processes and Practices
Part of IST23 Conference, 2023
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Part of Bildning i en digital tid?, p. 156-161, 2021
Part of Sustainable Digital Communities, p. 380-388, 2020
Part of Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 4th Conference (DHN 2019), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 5-8, 2019., p. 415-425, 2019
Part of Information in e-Motion, p. 288-291, 2012
On Social Media and Document Theory
Part of Information Science and Social Media, p. 73-77, 2011