Content Curation World

Video from Curation Module of Social Media for Active Learning Course. http://meme.coe.fsu.edu/smooc #SMOOC2014

Robin Good: A valuable resource for anyone interested in the creation, organization and preservation of digital collections for the humanities, is this curated selection of resources and citations made available by the DH Curation Guide.

"The DH Curation Guide is a compilation of articles that address aspects of data curation in the digital humanities.

The goal of the DH Curation Guide is to direct readers to trusted resources with enough context from expert editors and the other members of the research community to indicate to how these resources might help them with their own data curation challenges."

DH Curation Guide: http://guide.dhcuration.org/index.html

Of particular interest in this collection:

The concept of collection from the user’s perspective

by H. L. Lee.

A framework for contextual information in digital collections

by Lee, C. A.

Thematic Research Collections

by Palmer, C. L.

A framework of guidance for building good digital collections

by NISO Framework Advisory Group

Full guide: http://guide.dhcuration.org/collections/

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Robin Good: Steve Buttry, who has already written several articles on content curation (see the end of his original article), just published this in-depth essay celebrating the launch of a new curation team at Digital First Media and pointing to many of the critical factors neeeded for a content / news curator to be effective.

He covers a lot ground while giving a particular emphasis to the importance of linking and attribution. He writes: "Where you can’t learn much about the source of content you’re curating, consider crowdsourcing the question: Note the name and organization, tell readers what you’ve found and that you’re continuing research and ask them what they know about the source.

Where the source of online content is unclear, you should be clear about what you know and where you found the material."

and...

"Sometimes the name of a person or organization is not sufficient attribution.

If the person or organization is not well-known, do a little research (Google will provide quick answers in many cases; sometimes an “about us” page will help).

Especially in political content, you want to note whether you are linking to partisan sources. A liberal or conservative think tank or political action committee is an entirely different kind of source from a professional media outlet or an independent fact-checking site."

Steve Buttry also includes some valuable key guidelines on "how to add value" when curating content and suggests several types of curation approaches that can be used in the newsroom.

Good advice on curation and practical tips. 8/10

Full article: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/curation-techniques-types-and-tips/

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Robin Good: Steve Buttry has published a good article on his blog providing very specific suggestions and tips to those needing to aggregate, republish and curate news content for their organization.

Key topics covered:

-> Linking

-> Attributing
-> Quoting

-> Attribution checks

-> Adding value

-> Original reporting

-> Data analysis

-> Commentary

-> Filtering

-> Supplementing

-> Adding related stories

-> Rounding up

Valuable advice. 8/10

Full article: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/aggregation-guidelines-link-attribute-add-value/