Yet to examine the etymology and history of the word "curate" is to find a direct, fascinating link between the professional curator and her pop culture counterpart, engaged in the activity of selecting and displaying.
He says that as a professional curator he spends his time thinking about "building new audiences" and "serving the local community".
What a professional curator typically does is sift through a fairly complete, fairly well-resolved body of work and try to figure out what's the best, most representative material there.
Ultimately he recognized her importance to his career, she said, by leaving her the negatives of his photographs, instead of choosing a professional curator, or destroying them, as his friend Alfred Stieglitz had done.
Any of these could be accused of "stealing" because of their lack of given attribution, but, in the Internet age, the line between an amateur curator sharing with friends and a professional curator sharing for income is blurry.
This method is being successfully adopted by the Bovine Genome Database, which is using the annotation tool Apollo to allow collaborators to annotate new gene structures (38) and a professional curator to validate the data.
