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Content Curation: Beyond the Institutional Repository and Library Archives - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians

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. Related:  Content Curation

Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow I have received a lot of emails from readers asking to illustrate more clearly what the actual typical tasks of a news curator are, and what are the tools that someone would need to use to carry them out. In Part 4 and 5 of this guide I am looking specifically at both the workflow, the tasks involved as well as at the attributes, qualities and skills that a newsmaster, or real-time news curator should have. 1. Identify NicheIdentify your specific topic-theme. The more specific, the better. The broader your coverage the less relevant it will be to your readers, unless you are already a very popular individual that people trust on a number od different topics. Sequence your selected news stories to provide the most valuable information reading experience to your readers. There are likely more tasks and elements to the news curator workflow that I have been able to identify right here. Please feel free to suggest in the comment area, what you think should be added to this set of tasks.

DCC Curation Lifecycle Model The model enables granular functionality to be mapped against it: to define roles and responsibilities and build a framework of standards and technologies to implement. It can be used to help identify additional steps that may be required – or actions not required by certain situations or disciplines – and to ensure that processes and policies are adequately documented. Click on the model below to find out more about specific steps or to download the Curation Lifecycle Model. ** This publication is available in print and can be ordered from our online store ** Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model Data, any information in binary digital form, is at the centre of the Curation Lifecycle. This includes: Databases: structured collections of records or data stored in a computer system. Preservation Planning Plan for preservation throughout the curation lifecycle of digital material. Conceptualise Conceive and plan the creation of data, including capture method and storage options.

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.

How to Select the Right Content Marketing Software [Infographic] Earlier this year, Altimeter Group set out to define the content marketing software ecosystem in our research report, Content Marketing Software Landscape: Marketer Needs & Vendor Solutions. We found that the content marketing space is rife with challenges, both internal to the organization and externally across the ecosystem. The following infographic helps visualize this struggle. Internally, some 70% of organizations we surveyed lack a consistent or integrated content strategy. Externally, the content marketing software landscape is growing quickly and getting complicated. Our research outlines how marketers can make sense of all this noise by identifying, defining, and mapping vendors to the eight primary content marketing use cases. Mapping business objectives to these eight use casesPrioritizing those use cases (and related integration needs)Shortlisting vendors against use cases We hope you find this a helpful first step in your vendor assessment.

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

Are We Componentized Yet? Cells are clickable! Yellow means in-progress; green means mostly finished. Last Update: 19th September, 2014 — Added Bosonic library, removed 'Explained' column, and fixed spec links. Web Components!? What are web components? They are encapsulated, reusable and composable widgets for the web platform. The purpose of this page is to track progress across the various documents where web components are being specified, the polyfills that let you use them today, and their implementation in browsers that will make them a first class citizen of the web in the months and years to come. For lots more information about Web Components, including discussions, developer docs, and best practices, check out webcomponents.org. Specs! Web components are being specified at the W3C, with Dimtri Glazkov leading the charge, ably assisted by various other heroes. Libraries! There are three major libraries for working with and extending web components: X-Tags by Mozilla Polymer by Google Bosonic Polyfills! Code!

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.

Chart.js | Documentation Chart.js provides a number of options for changing the behaviour of created charts. These configuration options can be changed on a per chart basis by passing in an options object when creating the chart. Alternatively, the global configuration can be changed which will be used by all charts created after that point. Chart Data To display data, the chart must be passed a data object that contains all of the information needed by the chart. The data object can contain the following parameters Creating a Chart with Options To create a chart with configuration options, simply pass an object containing your configuration to the constructor. Global Configuration This concept was introduced in Chart.js 1.0 to keep configuration DRY, and allow for changing options globally across chart types, avoiding the need to specify options for each instance, or the default for a particular chart type. Global Font Settings There are 4 special global settings that can change all of the fonts on the chart. Colors

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