Hodges' model: A tool for Curation
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Bhaskar also lists (and briefly introduces) the principles of curation:
- Saving time
- Freeing cognitive resources
- Sparing us anxiety
- Maximising utility
- Cutting down complexity
- Finding quality
- Overcoming information overload
- Creating contrast
- Redefining creativity
- Channeling attention
- Providing context
- Beating overproduction (pp.167-168).
*To markets above, I would add disciplines and professions.
By definition an aide-mémoire should save us time.
The structure of Hodges' model provides a conceptual scaffold, a substrate affording us cognitive economy.
Through selection (self guided discovery) we are assuring data, information gathering, properly supervised this should spare us anxiety.
We are trying to ensure the effective use of our time, and efficiently zero-in on the concepts that are salient.
By reducing complexity, we increase the relevance and value of what is noted, recorded, acted upon. Data, facts, observations that are not redundant can be dismissed.
Contrast is co-confirmed by using innate oppositions, polarities and dichotomies with attention on the other and the middle.
When needed, Hodges' model can explode subject headings, concepts assisting exploration and creativity, potentially assisting at a transdisciplinary level.
Context rationalisation by testing and filtering a situation, helps to focus attention.
Duplication and repetition do not foster sustainable services, but there should always be scope for verification and person-centredness.
"As the eighteenth-century English painter Joshua Reynolds put it, 'Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.' Curation helps ensure that exact medium." p.159.
Bhaskar. M. (2016) Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess. London: Piatkus.
Book image: Waterstones.
See also: Is Hodges' model a selection machine?
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