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Maria Popova: The Architecture of Knowledge

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The Importance of Curation in Information Discovery

Curation is a terrible term, it has become vacant of meaning. A great curator to me is an information coin-star machine. It's someone who takes these pennies and transmutes them into useful knowledge. Vannevar Bush wrote in 1945 that there was a new profession of trailblazers. They are more important today than they were then.

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