DARIAH welcomes Isto Huvila as the new chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) as of November 2026. Isto Huvila has already been a member of the DARIAH SAB since 2025 and has been recently elected chair of the Board, following the stepping down of Panos Constantopoulos.
Isto Huvila is Professor of Information Studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden and is docent in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His major areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices.
The contexts of his research range from archaeology and cultural heritage to archives, libraries and museums, social media, virtual worlds and extends to information issues in healthcare and public and private sector organisations.
Huvila's work has been funded, among others, by the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Academy of Finland and he has given numerous invited talks and published broadly on the topics ranging from information work management, archaeological information management, social media, virtual reality information issues to archival studies and museum informatics.
Huvila was the chair of the recently completed COST Action Archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment (ARKWORK). Since 2019 he directed the ERC-COG funded research project CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future - CAPTURE conducting research on paradata and process documentation.
Huvila author and co-editor of several books including the recently published Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Data Processes (Springer 2024), Research Outside The Academy: Professional Knowledge-Making in the Digital Age (Palgrave MacMillan 2019), Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society (Routledge 2018) and Information Services and Digital Literacy: In search of the boundaries of knowing (Chandos 2012).
Huvila received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.
