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Nils Pharo

Nils Pharo

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 48, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: R405
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 38 302
E-mail
  • nils.pharo@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Areas of expertise: interactiv information retrieval, knowledge organization, scholarly communication, open science, open access

Field of study

Information architecture   Information retrieval   Open Access   Ontology   Information seeking behaviour   Open access   Knowledge organization   Open Access   Scholarly communication   Open Science   Open science

Research groups

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

Completed research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Pharo, Nils ; Borlund, Pia ; Liu, Ying-Hsang (2025). Archive workers’ information needs and how their expert knowledge influences information searching and collection curation: an interview study. Information research. Vol. 30.
https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30357579

Soelseth, Camilla Holm ; Bøyum, Idunn ; Colbjørnsen, Terje ; Pharo, Nils ; Tallerås, Kim (2025). Public libraries on TikTok – emerging platform vernaculars of communication and distribution. Information, Communication & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2461644

Pharo, Nils ; Borlund, Pia (2025). The use of bibliographic and cultural metadata - how to investigate users' information search behaviour. Hanssen, Jens Morten; Furuseth, Sissel (Ed.). The Hermeneutics of Bibliographic Data and Cultural Metadata. p. 175-203. Nasjonalbiblioteket.
https://issuu.com/nasjonalbiblioteket/docs/the_her

Pharo, Nils ; Tallerås, Kim (2025). Boundary Work and the Classification of Scientific Quality in Infrastructures for Performance-Based Research Funding. Andersen, Jack; Hansson, Joacim (Ed.). Exploring Contemporary Classification Practices. p. 182-203. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003605690-14

Borlund, Pia ; Pharo, Nils ; Liu, Ying-Hsang (2024). Information searching in cultural heritage archives: a user study. Journal of Documentation.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2023-0120

Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Pharo, Nils ; Darch, Peter Thomas (2023). Sharing Qualitative Interview Data in Dialogue with Research Participants. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 60.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.783

Borlund, Pia ; Pharo, Nils ; Liu, Ying-Hsang (2023). Scholars’ Searching for Audio-Visual Information in Archives. View : Journal of European Television History and Culture. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.18146/view.302

Bøyum, Idunn ; Byström, Katriina ; Pharo, Nils (2021). Is the reference desk used for reference interviews. Reference Services Review. Vol. 49.
https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-11-2020-0066

Kvale, Live; Pharo, Nils (2021). Understanding the Data Management Plan as a Boundary Object through a Multi-stakeholder perspective. International Journal of Digital Curation. Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v16i1.746

Berget, Gerd ; MacFarlane, Andrew; Pharo, Nils (2020). Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: Are existing models applicable?. Journal of Documentation. Vol. 77.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2020-0049



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Research reports

Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Bochynska, Agata; Stangeland, Elin; Sarre, Aili; Arnesen, Sondre Strandskog; Goncharenko, Igor; Ostrop, Jenny; Pharo, Nils (2022). Kompetanserammeverk for forskningsdatastøtte i UH-bibliotek. 21 p. OSF.

Bolin, Göran; Ehn, Billy; Pharo, Nils ; Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs; Amanda, Lagerkvist; Widén-Wulff, Gunilla (2009). Granskning av utbildningar inom kulturvetenskap och barn- och ungdomskultur: nationell bild. 68 p. Högskoleverket.
http://www.hsv.se/download/18.25f5fc89120437ec9bb7

Pharo, Nils ; Burgess, Mark; Edvardsen, Tor-Einar; Fallet, Birte; Johannessen, Asbjørn; Ribu, Lis ; Strøm, Tanja (2008). Institusjonelt arkiv ved Høgskolen i Oslo?. 29 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.

Pharo, Nils ; Hagerlid, Jan; Widén-Wulff, Gunilla; Hörsell, Ann; Justrell, Börje; Orrman, Eljas; Bech-Nielsen, Gert; Larsen, René; Magnusson, Gert; Olofsson, Elisabeth; Vilkuna, Janne (2008). Granskning av utbildningarna inom kulturvård och ABM-området: nationell rapport. 118 p. Högskoleverket.
http://www.hsv.se/download/18.12584b1911e21a5c9d57



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Dissemination

Langfeldt, Inga Buset; Pharo, Nils (2024). Kunnskap om og holdninger til datahåndteringsplaner blant ph.d.- kandidater - En kvalitativ casestudie. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Pharo, Nils (2024). Research communication in the climate crisis: Open letters and the mobilization of information. Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies.
https://doi.org/10.7146/njlis.v5i1.147307

Byström, Katriina ; Kumpulainen, Sanna; Pharo, Nils ; Ruthven, Ian (2024). The concept of information need and its operationalization in CHIIR research. 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3627508.3638290

Pharo, Nils ; Larsen, Selma Stormyren; Larsen, Dag Eivind Undheim (2023). Én av fem skjuler masteroppgaven.

Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Pharo, Nils ; Darch, Peter Thomas (2023). Sharing qualitative interview data in dialogue with research participants. ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting. ASIS&T Association for Information Science & Technology.

Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Sarre, Aili; Ostrop, Jenny; Pharo, Nils ; Stangeland, Elin; Sundstøl, Shea Allison; Bochynska, Agata; Arnesen, Sondre Strandskog; Bertheussen, Lene Elisabeth; Enerstvedt, Kjersti Hasle (2023). Competency framework for development of Research Data Support Services. SciDataCon 2023 and International Data Week 2023. Codata.
https://vimeo.com/879788919

Kvale, Live Håndlykken; Bertheussen, Lene Elisabeth; Bochynska, Agata; Good, Matthew; Stangeland, Elin; Enerstvedt, Kjersti Hasle; Ostrop, Jenny; Pharo, Nils ; Sarre, Aili; Arnesen, Sondre Strandskog; Sundstøl, Shea Allison; Goncharenko, Igor (2022). Kompetanse for forskningsdatastøtte i fag- og forskningsbibliotek. Virak konferansen. NTNU.
https://zenodo.org/record/6628031#.Y4DVWC8w1qs

Pharo, Nils (2022). Educating data stewards?. Open Access Week: The Rise of the Data Stewards. Universitetet i Bergen mfl.

Borlund, Pia ; Pharo, Nils ; Liu, Ying-Hsang (2022). Supporting Diverse User Groups of Archives​ for Open Dialogue in Digital Humanities​. ASIST 24-Hour Global Conference: Theme: Networking, Sharing, and Learning: Challenges and Opportunities. The Association for Information Science and Technology .
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/24-hour-glob

Borlund, Pia ; Pharo, Nils ; Liu, Ying-Hsang (2022). Conducting information seeking behaviour research in an international, interdisciplinary research project: experiences and reflections. The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
https://doi.org/10.18452/25285



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