managing your references or

curating your resources?

Allan Parsons, October 2015

Enjoy your research!

locating resources‘curating’ resources

[share]

locate-curate-create-disseminate

[evaluate][collaborate][participate][engage]

[search][store][analyse][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

iterative

reflexive

locating - curating

research 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 quiqqa

Overview of reference management software

curation tools

docear

Summary

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

• to avoid some of the traps inherent in the research situation

• to facilitate the creation of the several orders underlying the research and writing process

• to initiate participation in wider academic research communities

• to initiate participation in a wider world