Content Curation: Beyond the Institutional Repository and Library Archives - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians If you are an academic librarian, you have been hearing about Data Curation, Content Curation, Information Curation or Digital Curation for years. And the terms can be applied in several different ways. There are the curation activities surrounding purchased library materials and the curation of faculty and student items (like theses and dissertations for example). The Digital Curation Centre defines the concept for us: “Digital curation involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its lifecycle.” There are numerous questions, policies, issues and opportunities in all the various curation activities in libraries today, but I would like to turn our attention to the topic of Content Curation beyond the repository and archive doors. Clay Shirky (www.shirky.com) suggests that “[the problem] is not information overload. So, we’ve determined that curated content, when done well, offers great benefit to the reader. References: Good, Robin. Metzger, M.
Curation for Learning 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. 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. Keep in mind that content curation is not all Millennium Falcon apple pies and Judge Judy cross stitch samplers. If you’re thinking about breaking into this business, it’d be a good idea to get some direct experience first to show prospective employers that you have the necessary skill set.
What is Content Curation? What is Content Curation? Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific subject matter. Though it is still considered a "buzz word" by many in the content world, content curation is now becoming a marketing staple for many companies with a successful online presence. Unlike content marketing, content curation does not include generating content, but instead, amassing content from a variety of sources, and delivering it in an organized fashion. For instance, a content curator is not necessarily responsible for creating new content, but instead, for finding relevant content pertaining to a specific category and funneling this information to readers in a mash-up style. Who Are the Content Curators? Content curation is all around us. Many of us have been participating in content curation for years without even knowing it. What are the Secrets of Successful Content Curation? What are Some Helpful Content Curation Tips?
The 5 Models Of Content Curation Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America – and started as a private art collection from one man (J. Paul Getty) who had a passion for art. Aside from a few well known examples like this one, however, the term curation has rarely been used outside of the world of art … until now. One of the hottest trends in social media right now is content curation – thanks in no small part to the leading efforts of several thought leaders actively promoting the idea. Joe Pulizzi is a “content marketing evangelist” who speaks and writes often about content marketing publishes a list of the best content marketing blogs across the web. What Is Content Curation? Back in 2009 I published a blog post called the “Manifesto For The Content Curator” which predicted that this role would be one of the fastest growing and most important jobs of the future. The 5 Models Of Content Curation
Social Media Content Curation Content Curation : An Essence of New-Age Digital Marketing With the instant availability of meaningful content, videos on You Tube, millions of blog scrolls and other informational gateways, organizations are finding the need for content curators in social media. Content curation is the method of locating, organizing and sharing online content. Frankly, we need curators to go through the lofty task of wading through endless scrolls of information until they find the hidden gems. Content Curation Manners: ABCD Rule Accumulation: This is the most generic way of curation, which involves showcasing accordant content in one single location. Blend: Repackaging and blending different content to create an original point of view. Chronology: Timelined curation to present the evolution of subject matter. Distillation : Brew the overall noise to its most accordant concept. Content Curation Tools: There are a large variety of tools that can help you surpass informal endeavors to help increase organizational social media and content marketing attempts.
Unstick Your Stories Using Visuals SEO-Friendly Content Curation by Virginia Nussey, April 29, 2013 If you're a brand online, today's conversational media world requires you're also a publisher if you have any hope of holding space in the public marketplace. Yet the requirements of publishing are a tall order for most brands. Today's savvy audience has high standards for content deemed worthwhile and sharable. Technologies are being built up around content curation. Evaluating curation from an SEO standpoint centers around the question of rankability. Panda devalues duplicate content or over-optimized content (content intended only for search engine rankings as indicated by manipulative practices such as keyword stuffing). Can a collection of content aggregated from sources across the Web qualify for Google rankings? Here we: Explain the new media publishing requirements of brands today. Why Brands Must Be Publishers If you're charged with building a brand online, you've got a task in front of you. An SEO Test of Curated Content We decided to test. 1. 2.
Originality Is a Conservative Argument A few weeks back I put together a review of Looking at the Land, a multi-venue curation project by Andy Adams of Flak Photo. One paragraph in particular has drawn some praise, some fire, and some confusion. I'd like to expand on it to see if doing so can forward the conversation. Here is the paragraph from the original post: So many photographers today are making strong, but related images in terms of aesthetics and production methods. Bryan Formhals of LPV Magazine clipped out a section of this paragraph and posted it on his Tumblr page, called Photographs on the Brain. That’s the most asinine, deluded thing i’ve ever heard. Upon reading his reply, I had a feeling he might be based in New York City, and indeed he is A more textured, but even more damning reply came from Jörg Colberg on his Tumblr site Conscientious Redux: To quote John Berger: "After we have responded to a work of art, we leave it, carrying away in our consciousness something which we didn’t have before. *Mr.
The Content Strategist as Digital Curator The term “curate” is the interactive world’s new buzzword. During content creation and governance discussions, client pitches and creative brainstorms, I’ve watched this word gain traction at almost warp speed. As a transplant from museums and libraries into interactive media, I can’t help but ask what is it about this word that deserves redefinition for the web? Article Continues Below Curation has a distinguished history in cultural institutions. For a long time, we’ve considered digital objects such as articles, slideshows, and video to be short-lived. Consider some examples: NYTimes.com Topics employs content managers who sift through The Times’ archive to create new meaning by grouping articles and resources that were filed away (or distributed to library databases). More commercially, NBC Universal’s video site Hulu takes videos sourced from multiple networks and then rearranges them into collections that give a new perspective to the collection as a whole. What’s the payoff?