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From managing your references to curating your resources?

This document discusses using reference management tools as "curation tools" by: 1. Helping researchers avoid common traps like trying to read everything without focusing or failing to properly organize sources. 2. Facilitating the creation of conceptual frameworks to structure research and writing. 3. Enabling participation in wider research communities through collaboration and sharing of curated resources.

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From managing your references to curating your resources?

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from managing your references to curating your resources? Allan Parsons, 14-15 November 2012
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locating resources ‘curating’resources [share] [search][store][write][edit][publish] locate-curate-create-disseminate [evaluate][collaborate][participate] [engage]
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selecting evaluating collating collecting contextualising note on ‘curating’ displaying caring interpreting mattering conserving
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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
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philosophers encyclopaedists bibliographers librarians
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orders conceptual-topological discursive-agonistic bibliographic-intertextual material-cultural
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locating - curating iterative reflexive
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traps trying to read everything reading but not writing failing to keep bibliographic information organising chronologically
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the resource field [strategicliterature search]
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zotero endnote curation tools refworks readcube mendeley colwiz easybib Overview of reference management software
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Summary Reference management toolscan be adapted as ‘curation’ tools: • to avoid the traps inherent in the research situation • to facilitate the creation of the various orders underlying the research and writing process • to initiate participation in wider research communities • to initiate participation in a wider world • to initiate lifelong learning
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Editor's Notes

#3 Literature search (as part of literature review)finding resources : Literature Searchcurating resources, once found : Bibliographic, Textual and Knowledge managementWhat is being referred to here as the ‘curatorial’ process is one that concerns collecting content,organising content
#4 It is a fashionable term; Everybody on the web from the mid 2000s onwards ‘curates resources’ or ‘curates content’ It is sometimes said that ‘content curation’ is the future of the internet, the future of journalism, the future of librarianship, and so one, any profession or technology which deals with content.
#5 Aside: In a discussion of "The Taxonomy of the Branches of Learning", Fritz Machlup (1982: 19) distinguishes among philosophers, encyclopaedists, bibliographers and librarians.Philosophers facilitate orderly thinking, systematic analysis of the universe. Their concern is to produce an overview of things, chiefly abstract, and an understanding of the inter-relationships among such things as exist. The encyclopaedists present their work in a systematic but not alphabetic order. They are concerned with the orderly presentation of their material, in which they outline and organise the universe in a methodical way so that the reader might understand where all things should be placed, and where they should look for them in order to gain deeper insights.Bibliographers help readers and researchers become aware of all, or of the most important, publications in their specialist fields. Their listings secure the cumulative character of knowledge formation, promote the generation of new or amended knowledge, and prevent loss of knowledge previously created, duplication of research previously completed and repetition of error previously corrected.The crunch comes in Machlup's description of the librarian. For Machlup, librarians are concerned with the orderly listing of published titles in all fields of knowledge, orderly stacking of volumes, and orderly cataloguing, to help the users of books and journals find what they want to read or consult.]
#6 Aside: In a discussion of "The Taxonomy of the Branches of Learning", Fritz Machlup (1982: 19) distinguishes among philosophers, encyclopaedists, bibliographers and librarians.Philosophers facilitate orderly thinking, systematic analysis of the universe. Their concern is to produce an overview of things, chiefly abstract, and an understanding of the inter-relationships among such things as exist. The encyclopaedists present their work in a systematic but not alphabetic order. They are concerned with the orderly presentation of their material, in which they outline and organise the universe in a methodical way so that the reader might understand where all things should be placed, and where they should look for them in order to gain deeper insights.Bibliographers help readers and researchers become aware of all, or of the most important, publications in their specialist fields. Their listings secure the cumulative character of knowledge formation, promote the generation of new or amended knowledge, and prevent loss of knowledge previously created, duplication of research previously completed and repetition of error previously corrected.The crunch comes in Machlup's description of the librarian. For Machlup, librarians are concerned with the orderly listing of published titles in all fields of knowledge, orderly stacking of volumes, and orderly cataloguing, to help the users of books and journals find what they want to read or consult.]
#7 Curating implies creating order along these four dimensionsMetaphors for conceptual-topological order: tree of knowledge; circle of learning; book of nature; map of the sciences
#8 The relationship between searching for resources and curating resources is iterative (a repeated cycle) and reflexive (the next turn of the cycle depends on what has gone before; reflection on what has gone before alters what comes next)
#9 As identified in relation to an experimental molecular biology courseTrying to read everything: relevance ; importanceReading but not writing: postponing the writing processFailing to keep bibliographic information: ‘managing your references’Organising the review chronologically: conceptual/thematic/topological analysisThe use of so-called curatorial tools, such as ‘reference management’ tools as a means of addressing these potential traps, e.g. RefWorks, EndNote and Mendeley (to put Zotero and the others to one side)

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