What is Digital Curation? |
Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished by archivists, librarians, scientists, historians, and scholars.
In the past, the term curation commonly referred to museum and library professionals. It has since been applied to interaction with social media including compiling digital images, web links and movie files. |
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Why Curate?
"As instructors, we are all information curators. How do you collect and share currently relevant content with your students? How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class? What tools do you use to manage or facilitate presentation of resources? Is it public? Can students access it at other times? In groups?
Modern web tools make it easy for both students and instructors to contribute online discoveries to class conversations. Using free online content curation software, we can easily integrate new content in a variety of ways." --Jennifer Moss, E-Learning Designer, University of Alaska |
AggregationVertical Divider
Aggregation is the act of curating the most relevant information about a particular topic into a single location.
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DistillationVertical Divider
Distillation is the act of curating information into a more simplistic format where only the most important or relevant ideas are shared.
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ElevationVertical Divider
Elevation refers to curation with a mission of identifying a larger trend or insight from smaller daily musings posted online.
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MashupVertical Divider
Mashups are unique curated juxtapositions where merging existing content is used to create a new point of view.
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ChronologyChronology brings together historical information organized based on time to show an evolving understanding of a particular topic.
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