Authoring and curation are even more fundamental skills. Curation has traditionally meant just making sure assets are safe, uncorrupted, and ready for use, but it has broadened (particularly in the keynote by Steve Rosenbaum) to include gathering information, filtering and tagging it, and generally understanding what's useful to different audiences. This has always been a publisher's role. In the age of abundant digital content, the gathering and filtering functions can dwarf the editorial side of publishing. Thus, although Thomson Reuters has enormous resources of their own, they also generate value by tracking the assets of many other organizations.
When working with other people's material, curation, authoring, and editing all start to merge. Perhaps organizing other people's work into a meaningful sequence is as valuable as authoring one's own. In short, curation adds value in ways that are different from authoring but increasingly valid.
When working with other people's material, curation, authoring, and editing all start to merge. Perhaps organizing other people's work into a meaningful sequence is as valuable as authoring one's own. In short, curation adds value in ways that are different from authoring but increasingly valid.
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