The information on the project page states: " Is a curator a source of specialist expertise, a custodian, a content manager, a cultural programmer, a digital archivist, an editor? All these, or none of them?
What does the curator of a fossil collection have in common with a contemporary art curator, or the curator of a music festival? Where does community curation, co-curation, digital curation and crowd curation fit? "
The collection showcases phrases and words from visitors, professionals and academics trying to describe in their words what curation is to them.
The projects aims to elicit "contributions from across the University of Cambridge Museums, from researchers across the arts and sciences, and from cultural partners and other writers and thinkers from within and outside the museums and cultural sector", to build a body of work which will capture and explore the spectrum of thinking on this subject.
Curating is..... An excellent idea, however using an All Rights Reserved Licence reduces its value to debate substantially and defeats many of the aims stated above.
There is a lot of information out there, and the people in your network are probably feeling overwhelmed by it all. This can be an unfortunate source of stress for them, but it’s also an important opportunity for you. Content curation is the process of scouring the Internet, filtering out the junk, and discovering the most valuable, relevant and helpful.
Tiphanie Routier's insight:
Le web contient beaucoup d'informations, et les gens de votre réseau se sont probablement sentis dépassés. Cela a peut-être était une source de stress pour les malheureux, mais ça demeure une occasion importante pour vous. Le content curation est un processus qui va vous permettre de vous démarquer. Filtrer vos courriels, fouiller la toile, découvrir des contenus précieux, pertinents et utiles sur un sujet particulier ; le content curation va vous permettre d'être mieux, voir plus, visible.
Respecter l’auteur du contenu, et le curateur par exemple en les citant,Respecter la source, en indiquant clairement l’URLNe pas modifier le contenu, ni la source,Donner un point de vue qui enrichit le contenu existant
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Here is a nice, albeit still small, collection of visitor originated postcards defining what curation is, collected as part of the part of Curating Cambridge: our city, our stories, our stuff.
The information on the project page states: " Is a curator a source of specialist expertise, a custodian, a content manager, a cultural programmer, a digital archivist, an editor? All these, or none of them?
What does the curator of a fossil collection have in common with a contemporary art curator, or the curator of a music festival? Where does community curation, co-curation, digital curation and crowd curation fit? "
The collection showcases phrases and words from visitors, professionals and academics trying to describe in their words what curation is to them.
The projects aims to elicit "contributions from across the University of Cambridge Museums, from researchers across the arts and sciences, and from cultural partners and other writers and thinkers from within and outside the museums and cultural sector", to build a body of work which will capture and explore the spectrum of thinking on this subject.
Inspiring. In need of more contributions. 6/10
For more info see: http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/collaborative-projects/art-science-of-curation