Robin Good: Data (or Digital) Curation, is an academic/scientific discipline dedicated to preserve, organize and collect digital documents and other electronic artifacts for archival, re-use and repurposing objectives.
The importance of Data Curation can be easily underestimated as it may appear, to the casual viewer, as an arid, tedious document archival job.
In reality, Digital Curation efforts are of great value to the preservation of important cultural documents and data for future researchers who will want to access, in some organized way, the data-information-artifacts of our time. In addition, the data curation practices and guidelines developed by academic and research institutions can also be of value and inspiration to other types of curation work, that may adopt, emulate or innovate upon them.
If you are interested in learning more about Data/Digital Curation and in identifying the key organizations in this space, here is a good shortlist for you, thanks to the kind work of Kevin "the Librarian" Read:
University of Arizona – Digital Information Management University of Illinois – Data Curation Education Program University of North Carolina – DigCCurr University of Virginia – Scientific Data Consulting
Digital Curation Centre Digital Curation Exchange International Journal of Digital Curation Purdue-UIUC Data Curation Profiles Project
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our weekly broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition and on our Listen pages."
Do you want to know how to find the most valuable social media content? Are you looking for great articles and videos to share with your friends and fans?
A great video by the always excellent (and energetic) Mari Smith!
NB: The video is a year and a half old, but the tips are still very relevant
L'Indice de satisfaction des consommateurs américains le dit : les utilisateurs du réseau social Google+ en sont plus satisfaits que ceux de Facebook. Que font donc ces quelque 750 millions d'internautes encore sur Facebook absents du réseau social de Google?..
Facebook, twitter, google+, linked-in, viadeo, … aujourd’hui les réseaux sociaux foisonnent sur la toile. Les réseaux sociaux sont définis en droit comme "des plateformes de communication en ligne permettant à des personnes de créer des réseaux d'utilisateurs partageant des intérets communs". Autant dire que les possibilités sont presque infinies...
Vers le 19 juillet, Google a recommencé à envoyer un très grand nombre de messages aux webmasters pour les alerter de la détection de liens factices ou artificiels ("artificial or unnatural links" en anglais).
HootSuite has just added Google+ page integration to its social publishing app. It’s simple, elegant and seamless – even supporting circles (groups of users you wish to target publishing to).
Publicis Consultants Net Intelligenz, en charge de la communication online de l’agence Publicis Consultants, a publié la semaine dernière son livre blanc intitulé « LinkedIn, nouveau territoire de communication ».
Burson-Marseller say that their results indicate that the Global 100 are ?becoming more comfortable than ever using social media.? The fact that 79% of corporate Twitter accounts try to engage users through @mentions?
Drew Houston of Dropbox speaks during the Digital Life Design conference (DLD) at HVB Forum on January 23, 2012 in Munich, Germany. Dropbox is investigating whether its security was breached, leading to spam messages to users.
Cloud services are the ballyhooed future of software, information storage, device management and whatever else you can think of that requires the use of a computer or device. Which is why Dropbox’s current investigation into itself gives pause. The preeminent cloud-company is checking to see whether its security has been breached, leading to a rash of spam emails sent to users.
If such hack-attacks are not subdued when aimed at massive central information-storage servers, can the cloud be trusted?
Robin Good: Short post but very relevant points to start looking at. @chopemurray at Opencollaborarchy is the first individual I see catching the different shades of curation "intent" that are characterizing the "surge" of content curation initiatives, projects and tools all around us.
From the original post: "However the evolution of digital curation is experiencing some fragmentation. Not that this is bad, but it does suggest the differences should be understood as curation tools will differ in features and capabilities as each tries to satisfy its target customer base.
So far I have identified 3 major distinctions in [what is "sold" today as] curation:
a) Content Distribution
Marketing Content: comes in several forms as marketeers move away from landing pages on Facebook and web sites, and seek to amplify brand presence through curated content.
b) Sense-making - Topic-focused
Information (or Knowledge Content): More focused on collecting and condensing information to support a topic or subject. Most commonly a reference site usually set up for either internal or external collaboration
c) Personal Expression
Curating Personal Content – less dependent on content management features and capabilites: can either be used for amplification (self-branding) or condensing (information)."
Rightful. Calls for deeper analysis. 8/10
P.S.: I invite you also to contribute to the poll provided at the end of the post. Notwithstanding that the poll will reflect only the opinions of those answering it, I'd very much like those few investing in curation as a sense-making activity to make their voices heard.
Les premiers bilans de l’Open Data en France, 6 mois après le lancement du portail data.gouv.fr, oscillent entre la reconnaissance des efforts consacrés par les administrations publiques à l’ouverture des données et le constat de lacunes...
A point worth reflecting upon: "All Content is Marketing." In other words, even low-level documentation should be engaging, enjoyable, and informative. The post, from Intercom, handily walks the talk with its superb graphics.
L’observatoire de la gouvernance de l’information [saison 2], vient d’ouvrir ses portes le 14 juillet en France .
Pour rappel, il s’agit d’une initiative, pilotée par Jean-Pascal Perrein (blogueur avec qui j’ai commencé à vous apporter de la matière sur le sujet il y a 2 ans). La première édition de l’observatoire avait permis de collecter des informations de qualité,informations analysées et commentées dans un live blanc qui a connu un grand succès (plus de 1400 téléchargements le premier mois).
Le roi Juan Carlos d'Espagne a été privé de son poste de président d'honneur de la branche espagnole de WWF à la suite du scandale suscité par la chasse à l'éléphant du monarque en avril au Botswana, a annoncé samedi l'organisation de défense de la nature.
Les structures d'accueil sont interconnectées entre elles par des liens de partenariat, des outils de collaboration à distance, des bases de données communes ...
Beyond Pinterest and Instagram – ten visual social networks that ...
Marty Note Beyond Pinterest and Instagram 10 Social Nets you may not know but should use. Some great new highly visual social nets several of whom I'v never heard of until this helpful scoop.
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