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“An archive presuposes an archivist”. That is where the thought about the agency of the archivist can be developed. The archivist has the needed agency to decide on the purpose and predestined longevity of the archive. I would like to dip into longevity first. In that respect there seems to be at least two ways to archive. First is archiving for a
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So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they becom... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Engelbart finally came up with his answer: We need to create Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKRs), a new kind of tool that can integrate and update the latest knowledge held by a group of people and allows others to use it anytime, anywhere. Such tools would not have been possible in the printing era because paper, as a static physical medium, has... See more
Alan Chan • My Vision: A Forgotten History
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
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
