What is Curation?

Curation is not ...

  • Amassing is not curating
  • Hoarding is not curating
  • Aggregating is not curating
  • Addition is not curation - that is, taking a thing and adding another thing to it is not curation

Instead, curation filters the flood of information/data for a specific purpose, place, time or audience. So that the audience can make meaning of the data. (see Creation Curations Ethics of Content Strategy W2E)

Creation is the act of creating new meaning from the world.

First, One chooses a subject for each curated collection, preferably one which will bring new insights to both the general public and experts.

Next, The curated items are organized, prioritized, structured for the benefit of the audience. They form a story made up of curated items. By controlling the presentation order of curated items, the curator tells a story to the audience.

The curator's creativity is in crafting the content and presentation of the curated collection.

Curation is the selection of, care for and presentation of the objects entered into a collection.

What is NewsMastering and NewsRadars?

These three words were concocted by one Curation service from a couple years ago. It's not clear whether the service ever developed a stable audience, but these words offer an interesting take on different aspects of curating the Internet.

Newsmastering is about searching, finding, aggregating, filtering, curating, editing, juxtaposing and publishing news content coming from the most disparate sources into one, highly thematic, content-specific news stream. (see Real-Time News Curation: NewsMastering and NewsRadars)

A NewsMaster is like a DJ. They do the above, using tools like RSS readers, to aggregate and filter the mass stream of data into a useful stream of information.

A NewsRadar is a web site that is a topic-specific news stream. It is a stream of news covering a very specific topic, event, product or person.

extra

  • �archiving
  • collecting verifiable digital assets
  • maintenance
  • organize
  • oversee
  • preservation
  • provides search and retrieval
  • certfies the trustworthiness, integrity of the content
  • establishes repositories for reference
  • �establishing �repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes
  • goals - to influience in a benficial way
  • to offer a fresh look
  • to encourage appreciation, exploration

Curating, like many other careers in the arts, used to be a "gentleman's profession", meaning it was only for independently wealthy gentlemen. [1/5/13 10:32:22 PM] H: interpretation, exhibition, dissemination [1/5/13 10:32:28 PM] H: filter, producer, editor [1/5/13 10:32:39 PM] H: displaying, collecting, interpreting [1/5/13 10:33:01 PM] H: involves public participation and interactivity [1/5/13 10:33:10 PM] H: intelligent, well-informed, creative analysis [1/5/13 10:33:29 PM] H: A curator�s job is like a movie director�s in that you need to oversee every detail of the production so it helps to be extremely organized and that you can work well with others as it takes many skilled people to do the job

Process: [1/5/13 10:33:48 PM] H: - Conceptualize = overall theme [1/5/13 10:33:55 PM] H: - Write a mission statement [1/5/13 10:34:03 PM] H: - What is the purpose [1/5/13 10:34:25 PM] H: - research to understand the audience, the environment

is it Locally/ internationally? [1/5/13 10:34:51 PM] H: �A curator is not a creator but a facilitator for both the audience and the artists and a messenger who delivers ideas from contemporary society. A good curator needs to understand the audience and to fully communicate with the artists to let their work speak out to the public.� [1/5/13 10:35:03 PM] H: here a good recommendation: [1/5/13 10:35:10 PM] H: maximize the attendance for your exhibition and make it a memorable event [1/5/13 10:35:24 PM] H: make it fun, exciting, memorable [1/5/13 10:35:33 PM] H: curating as a method that cuts across different practices and spaces [1/5/13 10:35:48 PM] H: A (faith formation curator is ) someone who continually finds, groups, organizes, and shares the best and most relevant content and experiences on a specific topic to match the religious and spiritual needs of a specific audience [1/5/13 10:36:17 PM] H: The resources included are drawn from trusted sources - (theologically, biblically, pastorally, educationally - and reflect a diversity (of Christian traditions) [1/5/13 10:36:25 PM] H: We have organized the resources in Life Cycle categories (multi-generaitonal, family, and age groups) to make it easy for you to find appropriate resources for your people. [1/5/13 10:36:35 PM] H: conviction, love and passion, as adventure [1/5/13 10:36:53 PM] H: Definition 1 �Curating is the process by which a physical or virtual space is designed and formulated to include a collated, selected, interpreted and intended concept, which can be articulated through a variety of media� Definition 2 �The organisation, discussion and presenation of information including objects, facts and opinions, in order to create value and meaning to be understood by the public� Definition 3 �Curating is examining, researching and documenting a collection with the aim of making it accessible to the public. This is done through careful interpretation of the objects, space and text to curate an informative exhibition� [1/5/13 10:37:04 PM] H: researching and documenting a collection are essential when making collections accessible Who is a curated project or programme for? What is the curator hoping to communicate and to whom? How will the audience be involved or engaged? [1/5/13 10:37:17 PM] H: Curating is initiating, examining, researching and documenting a theme or topic with the aim of making it accessible an audience. This is done through careful interpretation of the information gathered and space to curate an engaging exhibition/event. CURATORIAL RESPONSIBILITY negotiator and mediator between the art/artist and society For whom is the curator responsible when political, moral- and other agents lay their heavy hand on projects in the public space, and censorship becomes the device?