Curating NWP Digital Is

Ways that the term "curate" is gaining buzz across many fields ...

From the International Journal of Digital Curation...article explaining the visual lifecycle model of curation

Thanks, Kim. *Very* useful!

Siemens suggests that "a curator is an expert learner."

I like the "curator as expert learner" metaphor and how Siemens conceives of networks as situated within a larger ecology, one that can both facilitate and pose barriers to connections. This brings me back to Charlie's comment that a curator, by the nature of the role, makes selection decisions that both include and exclude. Those selections are guided by our knowledge and our preferences (biases?). Anne

visual representation of curation by the Digital Curation Centre

Interesting ideas on literacy via remix, gaming, and more.

the beginning of this article talks about creating an online museum experience and the value of the museum as resource

Thanks, Paul--very helpful. Strkikes me that editors of newspapers were curators? of magazines? "all the news that's fit to print"--someones deciding, including, excluding. Charlie Moran

Pertinent to our planning meeting work ...

Here's the article from Cathy Davidson

Thanks for these assessment-resources, Kim. Keep 'em coming, if you run across others.

Nutznboltz description of digital curating

Interesting site - I'm going to use this for a resource

Rheingold has a lot of great links to articles about curation

Choose your own adventure hits the multimodal world.

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