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a presentation for Curation Matters, a symposium hosted by the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Toronto
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my name is _______ and i am a curator
J. TrantArchives & Museum Informatics
Curation Matters: The First Digital Curation Institute Conference
June 17, 2010
a curator is ... Only a minority of curators still see themselves as 'specialists', 'experts', or 'the gatekeepers of knowledge'. ...
The majority of participants defined themselves using terms such as 'researchers', 'knowledge brokers', 'communicators', 'facilitators' and most commonly 'interpreters'.
Dicker, 2010
a curator is ...
Dicker, 2010
a curator is ...
Dicker, 2010
a curator is?
if you had to ask yourself ... you are not a curator
most important function of a curator?
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/ceramics/new_ceramics_galleries/making_a_gallery/index.html
what curators do
what curators do ...
digitally.
what curators do ... digitally.
why curators do digitally.
digital curation tools
digital curation tools
nowandthen.org
digital curation tools
digital curation tools
art galaxy - 1997
Art Galaxy - screenshot from 1997 http://mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Artfolder
digital curation ... without tools
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dog
action
antler
gilded
tagusers
object!
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bejeweled
animal
woman
deer
rearing
hunting
luxury
horse
leaping
J. Trant, Jan 28, 2008
based on Wyman et al. 2006, Fig.2
huntress
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documents
! 86% new terms
! 88% useful
! >98% useful if assigned 2 or more times
steve.museum
Eric Fischer, 2010
Museum of LondoniPhone app
curating digitally
curating digitally
YouTube Play: a biennial of video
curating digitally
! includesculture and heritage
moving from digital curation to curating digitally ... from a passive collection to an active interpretation
cultural content in networked user space
