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Content Curation World
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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
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Robin Good
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What is digital curation and why is it important to you? Leading experts in the curation and preservation of digital objects (such as databases, photos, vide...
Robin Good's insight:
Here is a 5-minute video recorded at the DigCurV Final Conference which took place on the 6th and 7th of May 2013 in Florence, Italy, in which several academic and research professionals in the fields of curation and preservation of digital objects (such as databases, photos, videos, websites, etc) share their views on what exactly is digital curation, and why it matters. DigCurV is a project funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme to develop a curriculum framework for training in Digital Curation. To learn more, visit http://digcur-education.org Original video: http://youtu.be/6cuOdgvYRGM 
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's curator insight,
May 26, 2013 1:06 AM
Digital Curation - Making the information accessible to different types of developers to continue the sharing of past knowledge with future generations. 
Pippa Yeoman's curator insight,
June 6, 2013 7:04 PM
Digital curation - the preservation and repurposing of content. Using digital hubs to collect, collate and make a contribution to conversations in your area of academic interest. |
UsefulScience is a curated collection of useful science info summaries delivered in 5-second bytes.
UScience contains one paragraph long citations or excerpts from research papers, magazine articles or other relevant scientific sources to which it links directly to.
Useful information bytes are organized into 12 different categories ranging from creativity to sleep, with fitness, health, education, persuasion and productivity in between.
A great example of content curation at work, it shows in an immediately tangible way, how the time consuming work of gathering, vetting and presenting information in a simple and digestible format can give life to highly valuable information / educational resources.
Well organized, legible, easy to navigate and full of useful gems this is certainly a great inspirational model for how to best use a content curation approach to create high value from existing content and resources.
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