JSTOR: Access Check

We look at them with a lesser hold than we do things that sit in formal archival structures. But, understanding that all of these things are intertwined and that there are ways of honoring bodies of knowledge that don’t fit into the archive has always been important. This project tries to draw on that concept, and on archives that exist within phys... See more

In a world of perpetual data overload, [curation] implies information design and selectivity: the channeling, filtering, and organization into intelligible and usable information; the digging up of new or long ignored cultural corpora. Most of these corpora are simply sitting in storage: less than 1% of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent colle... See more