Digital Collections and Aggregations | DH Curation. Libraries, museums, and archives have been producing digital collections for decades, providing scholars with broad access to countless special collections. Researchers engaged in digital scholarship have also created many digital collections tailored to the interests of their particular research communities. Both kinds of collections are curated, in that they have been carefully selected and assembled for a specific purpose or audience. In the networked information environment, curated collections will become increasingly important as organizational units for the scattered and diverse mass of available digital information and for providing coherent contexts for meaningful engagement with that information. Aggregations, or collections of collections, are essential backbone resources in the evolving e-research platform that also need to be curated if they are to truly support and enhance discovery and innovation across the disciplines.
Curation et communication. Digital serendipity: be careful what you don't wish for. That's why curation matters | The Guardian | Social Media Content Curation. 10 of the Greatest Cartoons of All Time. Fashion 2.0 | Social Curation Start-ups Target Fashion Industry. Lyst Screenshot | Source: Lyst NEW YORK, United States — The history of the internet is a story of two counter-balancing forces: the explosive growth of information and the rise of new systems that help us sift and make sense of this information.
Back in the early 1990s, human editors at companies like Yahoo! Compiled curated lists and directories of useful information. As the rising volume of information overwhelmed these human filters, hand-curation gave way to algorithmic search à la Google. But today, as consumers become their own media outlets, producing staggering amounts of user-generated content every day, and savvy marketers reverse-engineer Google’s algorithm to game the search results, separating signal from noise is once again becoming difficult. “Search results in many categories are now honey pots embedded in ruined landscapes — traps for the unwary,” wrote investor, writer and entrepreneur Paul Kedroksy.
So far, the strategy seems to be working. With #MuckReads, ProPublica explores the social side of curation. Since ProPublica launched back in 2008, one of its goals has been not only to produce important works of investigative journalism, but also to highlight the works produced by other outlets. That effort was done largely, but not entirely, with “Investigations Elsewhere,” the section of ProPublica.org devoted to, as its title suggests, investigations that have been conducted by reporters outside ProPublica. Today, though, Investigations Elsewhere is evolving into a new feature: #MuckReads, a more social approach to curation.
Think #Longreads, but for public-interest articles. As Amanda Michel, ProPublica’s director of distributed reporting, explains in a blog post announcing #MuckReads: #MuckReads will curate the day’s essential accountability stories, discovered and shared by our reporters and editors, and readers like you…. With #MuckReads, ProPublica is essentially shifting curatorial power from the hands of its staff to those of its public more broadly. Web Content & Digital Curation. How Reuters Curates UGC via Twitter Video. Astromaterials Curation. The Kickstarter Blog - Introducing Curated Pages. Today we’re excited to unveil a new feature on Kickstarter called Curated Pages. As noted in today’s New York Times, Curated Pages are a way for organizations, institutions, and (soon) individuals to share projects they love on Kickstarter.
To help us launch this feature, we invited some of the most respected arts and cultural institutions in the world to curate projects from their communities, or simply things they found and liked on Kickstarter. You can see the fruits of their efforts below, or by going to the bottom of the Kickstarter homepage. Curated Pages For logo-phobes, that list is: the Wooster Collective, Pitchfork, the city of Portland, Oregon, Rhode Island School of Design, the Magnum Foundation, Rhizome, Creative Commons, GOOD Magazine, NYU’s ITP program, Kill Screen, School of Visual Arts, and the Brooklyn Flea. Thanks to all of these institutions for their time and their ongoing work in support of the arts. Interested in curating a page of your own? Digital Content Curation Is Career for Librarians | Backtalk. By John Farrier A cherpumple is a cherry pie, a pumpkin pie, and an apple pie each baked within separate cakes, then assembled and iced.
I found a picture of one on a food blog, posted it on Neatorama.com, and from there the cherpumple went viral. That one post brought hundreds of thousands of readers to Neatorama, and eventually the cherpumple was featured by mainstream news organizations such as ABC News. Sometimes all it takes is a librarian to shake the Web. Clay Shirky put it simply: “It’s not information overload. I have two jobs. Blogging has been around for more than a decade, and librarians have become active and prolific bloggers.
It’s harder than you might think. To accomplish this feat, I rely heavily on a RSS reader with over 500 new items daily. Does all of this sound familiar? I’ve noticed that my mental habits and thought processes as a librarian have served me well as a content curator. Then you should try to secure an internship. Introducing The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web. By Maria Popova UPDATE: Some thoughts on some of the responses, by way of Einstein. UPDATE 2: This segment from NPR’s On the Media articulates the project well — give it a listen. Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.” ~ Ray Bradbury You are a mashup of what you let into your life.” ~ Austin Kleon Chance favors the connected mind.” ~ Steven Johnson As both a consumer and curator of information, I spend a great deal of time thinking about the architecture of knowledge.
Until today. I’m thrilled to introduce The Curator’s Code — a movement to honor and standardize attribution of discovery across the web. One of the most magical things about the Internet is that it’s a whimsical rabbit hole of discovery — we start somewhere familiar and click our way to a wonderland of curiosity and fascination we never knew existed. In both cases, just like the words “via” and “HT,” the respective unicode character would be followed by the actual hotlink to your source. Content Curation « Information Flux in the 21st Century. My employer recently sent my fellow digital librarian and me a link to post on Robin Good’s blog, Content Curation: Why is The Content Curator The Key Emerging Online Editorial Role of the Future. After reading this post, I began to contemplate what I do, and whether my new degree is necessary. I returned to school to pursue a Masters in Information and Library Science (MILS) because I anticipated that there would be a need for web content curation, although I thought of it as web or digital librarianship, and believed the education was necessary to do this job well.
And, I still do. Ultimately, content curation is pretty much what my job entails, and I could not imagine doing it competently without the additional education. But, I started thinking about other areas where content curation could be done without an MILS. If all you’re doing is scouring the web for specific content, what does the library school education give you? Like this: Like Loading... No comments yet.