Curation as Anticipation: On Digital Interpellation of Scholar

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Abstract

[In Russian]

by Galina Orlova

The author considers the possibility of mastering the position of a digital curator by a humanist. Digitalization of scholarship and increasing in the volume of available data amend the protocol of empirical research and change the modes of representation for the outcome of investigation. It is possible that tomorrow the author’s contribution to the production of knowledge will be measured not only by a monologic writing, but also by curated datasets, layouts and thematic collections. How can one remain a researcher-humanitarian producing critical knowledge, being sensitive to contexts and being capable of reflection in the process of accompanying data? Since in the actual digital humanities the conceptual language for data curation hasn’t developed, the author asks this question to discourse of cultural content curating in the Web, to e-science with its interest to long-life data curation and to curatorial trend at the contemporary art.