Digital Curation in Education

what the heck is Social Bookmarking?

For a long time, Mobile Internet was a "baby internet" as Steve Jobs called it, the day the iPhone was launched....

Excelent article, by Lyn Hay, about the content curation and collective intelligence.

She grabs some good articles and presentations and put them into a single post.

12 year old Adora Svitak teaches 21st century skills to teachers using a smartboard.

While Twitter generates mass interest and curates collective thought, its trends cannot represent the true pulse of world conversation. That needs to change.

However,  the Library of Congress was more forward thinking in archiving Twitter since 2010. Twitter data, presumed to represent the pulse — and sometimes the future — of popular consciousness, now commands big bucks from hedge funds that in turn use Twitter data to make investment predictions. Even scientists are tapping into Twitter data for research purposes.

Curation is one of the most valuable services you can provide in a world flooded with information.

Now, you may be wondering, “Isn't curating just a fancy term for filtering information?” Not exactly. As I see it, when it comes to workplace communication, there are actually three levels to the way information is transferred: ...

Brief but thought provoking article, including ideas about 'future universities'... "Let's focus on the resulting element - the "collective intelligence". Think about it as billions of human brains working using future super computers as a platform. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Srini Devadas described "collective intelligence" as consisting of two pillars: cloud computing and crowd computing. Cloud computing is using the Internet as a platform and making access to information available to everyone. Crowd computing, according to him, involves the analysis of information into "collective intelligence"; far beyond what we have today."

Over at Science of the Invisible, my colleague Alan Cann has been reflecting on the contemporary landscape within academic publication. Specifically, he's been thinking aloud about the role played ...

Bingo for Bing!

Bing, the search engine, has just introduced Editor's Picks, curated selection of web sites to complement organic search results.

This is the direction of the future.

From the official Bing site: "Editors’ Picks were designed to enhance Bing results by bringing editorially selected sites to your search experience.

Our goal, whether delivered by algorithm or by editors, is to help you find what you’re looking for faster and to get stuff done.

Editors’ Picks are small collections of relevant sites that our online editorial experts think will be useful to you, but may not always make it to the top of the search results page."
 

As long as the "editorial experts" will start to move out of Bing and in from their true audience, while showing maximum transparency for their credentials and selection criteria and the more we move closer to the "curated search engine" experience which may become the key innovation for major search engines in 2012.

Let's see...

 Find out more: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/11/14/introducing-bing-editors-picks-a-guide-to-great-sites.aspx?q4173838=1

The identification of emerging patterns is essential to content curation. This is an activity  that information professionals should be proficient at - adapted to social media environments.

Excerpt from article:

Content curation is a response to the desire to become an expert on a specific topic of interest. Content curation can aid individuals and institutions who seek to gain awareness on developments in an area or seek to become recognized knowledge experts for a specific topic....

It is critical to detect emerging patterns in information early to be an effective content curator. Pattern detection is important for a few reasons:

1. If there is an emerging pattern, there’s something going on - An emerging pattern is the starting point that signals that an important event is on the cusp of taking place...

2. Patterns provide insights on the significance of an event - Patterns provide valuable information on the magnitude and importance of an event....

3. Patterns demonstrate how events evolve - Relevance is increasingly time sensitive. The availability of real-time information requires successful content curators to get their hands on fresh information.

4. Patterns link together pieces of the information puzzle - A good content curator needs to understand emerging events in their totality...

5. Understanding patterns helps to identify experts - The most authoritative people on a topic are usually those that are able to report first on a matter, and generate buzz around new developments.

Best curators are those that see patterns that nobody else sees....

The debate over the rules of content creation and curation continues to rage. We spoke to some experts for their opinion on the issues surrounding copyright and monetization.