A presentation I gave at KnowCamp in Modena about digital curation: what curating content is and why to do it, tips on curating content and preserving that data.

1. Digital Curation:
the new frontier of knowledge
Sara Rosso
KnowCamp 2011, Modena

2. Information Curation :
Then
Limited access to
highly curated information

3. Information Curation :
Now
High access to information
Largely unfiltered
New challenges: Quality, Relevance

4. Google: best for pulling information

5. News from Social Networks
Same news, but:
27% of all adults Convenient
Variety
38% adults < 30 Quality
Customized
July 2011, www.People-Press.org

6. “Everyone is a media
outlet”
Clay Shirky, NYU Professor

7. Curation
Curation
Curation

8. “(content) Sharing is driven by our
desire to shape or maintain
relationships with other people.”
Poynter.org

9. You: Curation
Creation and Curation
Curation
Curation

10. Digital curation lifecycle
Curate
Preserve
Digital Curation Centre, Edinburgh

11. Curate and Preserve

12. 1. Curate for specific audiences

13. 2. Add value to curated content
The woman with 100 personalities Source link
Kim Noble, although she doesn't care to be called that, has over 100 distinct
personalities.
For a journalist, this presents certain problems. Kim Noble
herself is merely a name on a birth certificate - a
Curated, short
portmanteau of identities. So which version of her do you
interview? Do you talk to whomever pops up? Hayley? excerpt of
original content
Judy? Ken?
It turns out there's a protocol: you meet Patricia, the
dominant personality among the many alter egos in Noble's
head. With the help of regular support workers, Patricia
Context,
looks after Aimee and makes sure there's milk in the fridge.
It is Patricia who answers the door and welcomes me in.
A horrifying and fascinating story. Noble wrote a book about her experiences and the
varied body of art done by her various personalities can be seen here. And do watch this
opinion, and
video; it's a clip of one of Noble's personality switches...the language she uses to
describe herselves is interesting. (via @dunstan)
added links
www.kottke.org

14. 3. Categorize & organize content
www.pintrest.com
www.delicious.com
www.curated.by
www.stumbleupon.com

15. 4. Create niche archives
www.keepstream.com, www.storyful.com, www.shareist.com, www.storify.com, www.scoop.it, www.magnify.net, www.pearltrees.com

16. Best practice:
“Own your zone” (and data)
Edelman Digital

17. Sites own your data; not you
Search own
content?
“Due to resource constraints, not
Archives?
every Tweet can be indexed in
Twitter Search.”

18. Where’s my content?

19. Your Digital Hub:
Create, Curate, Preserve

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21. Thank you!
Sara Rosso
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