Acknowledgements

Like all books, this volume on paradata is a group effort. All of the chapter authors have been working in the CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) research project, which has provided a productive, intellectually inspiring and thoroughly enjoyable environment for our work. Even those of our colleagues who have not participated in the writing of the chapters have not escaped discussions on the book and its different chapters. We are all grateful, for productive discussions on paradata, feedback and insights during the process, to Stefan Ekman, Amalia Juneström, Jessica Kaiser and Michael Olsson. Michael also undertook the daunting task of acting as a commentator of an almost final manuscript providing relentless critique and suggestions for improving both the context and language throughout the manuscript. We also thank Dr Maureen Henninger for helpful comments on Chapter 4. We further thank the advisory board of the project, Costis Dallas, Melanie Feinberg, Jeremy Huggett, Eric Kansa, Costas Papadopoulos and Sally Wyatt, for enlightening and intellectually rewarding discussions on paradata, documentation and ‘things appropriable as informative’ of practices and processes. In particular, the development of the theory of paradata and framing its contexts outside of the domain of archaeology have also benefited from the work of the paradata working group of the InterPARES Trust AI working group under the firm and friendly leadership of Professor Emerita Patricia Franks. Finally, even though we are unable to list everyone, we are also grateful to all the colleagues who have presented at CAPTURE Talks, our online and onsite seminars, workshops and panel discussions, listened and commented on our work so far, and engaged in lively discussions on practice and process documentation, and paradata. All of these longer and shorter exchanges of ideas have had an impact on our thinking and writing.

This volume is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 818210) for the research project CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE).