Curation Progress Report: Blog 9

This week, I have continued to find more and more pictures of unique gardens. I realize that my entire curatio cannot just be of pictues, so I have begun to do some research on influential people in the horticulture community regarding innovations, so to speak, in gardens and vegetable gardens, and what their contributions were and have accomplished.

This is a bit more complicated than I expected, because finding actual inormation on the gardener's themselves is much more difficult than just finding pictures. It takes more time and effort than just typing into the google search bar: influential horticulture figures. I know that I will have to research much more, and go "deeper" for that part of the curation.

I know that this will probably be the biggest obstacle to overcome with my curation. Finding pictures is extremely easy, and there are literally thousands of them instantly, immediately when you type in what you need. But finding the people behind them is often times the tricky part, as I have found with my research.

The best piece of info I found this week was an awesome link that lists the top 30 most influential gardeners. I have begun to go through and find the ones that relate really well to my curation. I still have a bunch more to research but I at least have the foundation for finding the "influential gardeners" part of my curation. Below is the useful link of the gardeners I have found thus far.

http://applebyblog.hortweek.com/2012/01/05/top-30-influential-gardeners/

I definitely feel a lot more organized with all of the information I have now, and have started to go through and evaluate what is valuable to me and what should not be used. The next three steps for me to work on would be to finish going through the link and see which horticulturists I should use in my curation. Secondly, I then need to gather solid information on the people I plan on using. And thirdly, I need to sit down and explore Tumblr, so I know how to use it properly and learn all of the tools that come with it.

Doing the curation progress updates is actually a really great idea and I think it works really weel with this project. It forces me to sit down, and thoroughly go through and organize all of my information, ideas, and future plans for the curation. In this way, I do not feel overwhelemd or as stressed out because I am getting all of my ideas out, but I also have everything I have done, and still need to do listed in front of me.