from

managing your references

to

curating your resources?

Allan Parsons, October 2013

locating resources‘curating’ resources

[share]

locate-curate-create-disseminate

evaluate-collaborate-participate[engage]

[search][store][write][edit][publish]

note on ‘curating’

selecting

collecting

caring

conserving

interpreting

displaying

contextualising

collatingevaluating

mattering

Machlup, F. (1982) Knowledge: its creation, distribution, and economic significance. Volume II: The Branches of Learning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Godin, B. (2008) The Knowledge economy: Fritz Machlup’s construction of a synthetic concept. Quebec. Retrieved from http://www.csiic.ca/PDF/Godin_37.pdf Accessed on 3 November 2012

philosophers encyclopaedists bibliographers librarians

conceptual-topologicaldiscursive-agonisticbibliographic-intertextualmaterial-cultural

orders

Note on AgonismAgon in classical studies

Agon in literary studies

Agon in Arendt’s democratic politics

Agon in Mouffe’s democratic politics

Agonism in academic practicesTannen, D. (2002) Agonism in academic discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 34 (10-11), pp.1651–1669. Available at: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378216602000796. Accessed on 24 November 2012

iterative

reflexive

locating - curating

potential traps     

• trying to read everything• reading but not writing• failing to keep

bibliographic information• organising

chronologically

the resource field

[strategic literature search]

mendeleyzotero

endnoterefworks

colwiz

readcube

easybib

Overview of reference management software

curation tools

SummaryReference management tools can be adapted as ‘curation’ tools:

• to avoid the traps inherent in the research situation• to facilitate the creation of the various orders in the

research and writing process• to initiate participation in wider research

communities• to initiate engagement with a wider world

Enjoy your research!