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"Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: "Le Guide de la Curation". For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/ This comparison is associated to another one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically select content : http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/outils-de-publication-automatique-md16pw3"

"Developing high-quality content is still a problem. This is why I'm currently infatuated with the idea of content curation and the tools that enable it."

Excellent blog by Beth on seek, sense, share--the meat of content curation

Great curation tools to find and organize online resources

Posted by Beth Kanter on her blog, Beth's Blog, July 13 2012. In this post, Kanter includes a recent presentation titled The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation; with much food for thought in terms of the process, the tools and the possible positive results.

Trapit is a tool that assists with discovery of new resources and also provides a framework for presentation of resources, thus making it a potentially useful tool for content curation. Fall 2012, they are promoting educational applications as well.

By Karon Kelly, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Colorado State University, Research Data Management Workshop, March 24, 2011. This is a PDF of a powerpoint describing the significance of data curation in the hard sciences.

Posted by George Siemens on his blog elearnspace, September 5 2011. Siemens argues that instructors can't provide "coherence" for knowledge just by "broadcasting" a course. He suggests that coherence is about how "*we* connect information elements and how we use artifacts and narratives to share that coherence." I am interested in the idea of "information foraging," especially in the context of content curation.

Posted by Morten Mystad on the blog Myrstad's Blog, May 27 2011. For more on the topic, see tag ed_curation

Content curation tool "to make stories using social media." Incorporate pages and links from social media sites to create your story. SM mentions in Curation in Education bookmark. See tag ed__curation

Examples I viewed appear in a linear format.

On the home page, it says, "Hieroglyph is a publication, collective conversation and incubator for the "moonshot ecosystem" bringing together writers, scientists, engineers, technologists, industrialists and other creative, synoptic thinkers to collaborate on bold ideas in a protected space for creative play, science, and imagination."

This platform is surely of interest. Uses a forum format, each of which contains a "big idea" that is described and discussed. In addition, the wiki contains curated content about the project.