Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
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History of curation
The brands winning now have stopped shouting into cameras. They’re curating taste universes. They show art influencing their design. Music the brand appreciates. Books that inform their thinking. Collaborators, artists, designers, activists whose work aligns with their sensibility. Cultural references shaping their aesthetic.
They give us worlds to... See more
They give us worlds to... See more
Fatema Raja • The Taste Renaissance
When a brand builds a universe specific enough, coherent enough, richly curated enough, the right people recognize their own taste reflected. The shouting becomes unnecessary.
The world speaks for itself. And the people who belong there find their way home.
But most brands won’t do this. It’s too slow, too difficult, too dependent on taste as a real... See more
The world speaks for itself. And the people who belong there find their way home.
But most brands won’t do this. It’s too slow, too difficult, too dependent on taste as a real... See more
Fatema Raja • The Taste Renaissance
Your world grows with every authentic creation, every genuine connection, every true expression.
Not because you're trying to be discovered, but because you're focused on what's worth discovering.
Don't create something to be consumed. Create something to be explored.
Not because you're trying to be discovered, but because you're focused on what's worth discovering.
Don't create something to be consumed. Create something to be explored.
Matt Gottesman • Don't Create Something to Be Consumed... Create Something to Be Explored
Trusted advisors don't pretend to know everything.
They know who to ask, what to read, where to look.
Curation is the infrastructure of advisory relationships.
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The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators
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This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. First, what are info atoms? A tweet is an atom. A photo on Flickr is an atom. A conversation item on Google Buzz is an atom. A Facebook status message is an atom. A YouTube video is an atom.
Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc.
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.
References
Ahn, A. (2013). “You are not a curator”. Bullett. Consulted February 4, 2013. http://bullettmedia.com/article/you-are-not-a-curator/
Arnold, K. (2006). Cabinets for the curious: Looking back at early English museums . Hants & Burlington, Ashgate Publishing.
Belk, R. (2013). Collecting in a consumer society . Abingdon, Oxfordshire, & New... See more
Ahn, A. (2013). “You are not a curator”. Bullett. Consulted February 4, 2013. http://bullettmedia.com/article/you-are-not-a-curator/
Arnold, K. (2006). Cabinets for the curious: Looking back at early English museums . Hants & Burlington, Ashgate Publishing.
Belk, R. (2013). Collecting in a consumer society . Abingdon, Oxfordshire, & New... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Relevant Curation Articles - 2008-2013
Arguably, algorithms already curate the information that we encounter online. They are, as Kevin Slavin puts it, “like an invisible architecture that underpins almost everything that’s happening” (Slavin, 2011). In doing so, they reshape how our culture works and how we understand the world. Unlike Brand, whose view of the curating done by the... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Can curation be algorithmic or should it be human?
In Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture , Eilean Hooper-Greenhill documents how museum work “has involved the establishment of a canon” through which order is created “by giving authority to certain texts, figures, ideas, problems, discursive strategies and historical narratives” (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000b, 20). This process of “boundary... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Museums and the their role in developing culture - Boundary maintenance and the curation canon: can there be rules for what is of value and what is not?
Opportunity to update the museums and art gallery curation canons as well as those of who curates content and resources - of whatever kind - online