managing your references or

curating your resources?

Allan Parsons, October 2016

Enjoy your research!

three paradigmsconventional publishing – knowledge sharing – social engagement

search

store

analyse

write

edit

[publish]

locate

curate

create

disseminate

[share]

evaluate

collaborate

participate

[engage]

The time(s) at which, the degree to which and the ways in which you allow in ‘the Other’

Institutional Identity

Blogger

WordPress Academia.edu

Scoop It!

Google Sites (Wiki)

Diigo ResearchGate

Mendeley LinkedIn

Twitter

Piirus

ORCiD

[Facebook?]

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