Curating NWP Digital Is

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

Thanks, Kim. *Very* useful!

visual representation of curation by the Digital Curation Centre

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

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

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 ...

Nutznboltz description of digital curating

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