Digital Content Curation Research Articles

Study on Contexts and Stages of Digital Content Curation Models: Guidelines for Use in Qualitative Analysis Software

Researchers have shown interest in using software in scientific investigations, expanding literature review strategies in the organization, collection, analysis, and data triangulation. These aspects revealed possibilities for discussions related to digital content curation in Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS). The choice and organization of qualitative data in scientific research are affected by this complexity of information, which involves planning, contextualization, and ethical dilemmas of sharing, among other aspects that permeate the investigations. Thus, this study aims to contribute to the reflection and analysis of models of digital content curation that can be used in CAQDAS. A qualitative descriptive methodology was used to achieve this goal, made possible by a critical literature review of scientific works about digital content curation. It was based on searches in two academic databases (Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO – and Scopus) and two gray literature databases. As a result, few digital content curation models with similar stages are employed in different contexts, and that some authors are interested in reflecting on such models. It was also found that the digital content curation models can be redefined and explored based on specific guidelines that consider the context of the organization of qualitative data in CAQDAS.

Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness

AbstractAlthough visual arts teachers have free access to high quality online artwork images offering them immense teaching resources, making meaningful use of them remains a pedagogical challenge. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the transition from face‐to‐face to online teaching caused an immediate need for teachers to enhance their digital competencies and technological capability for planning and delivering a blended art curriculum. Herein, I propose a ‘teacher‐curator pedagogy’ via a study in six primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong to assess its effectiveness. The study took place in the academic year of 2021‐22 with 331 student participants. The proposed pedagogy puts visual arts teachers in the role of ‘digital curators’ who create virtual exhibitions for teaching art appreciation and artmaking. This paper addresses the theoretical framework, implementation strategies, and the results of the study highlighting its effectiveness, impact and limitations on teaching when using teacher‐curated virtual exhibitions in both physical and virtual learning contexts. It was found that the technological capacity and confidence of the teacher participants was enhanced through the use of online resources and virtual exhibition tools. Making use of the 3D presentation of exhibits in themes and context through digital content curation, the teachers engaged students with deep interaction through the blending of online and face‐to‐face teaching. However, the proposed pedagogy was limited by the high demand of training and preparation work, hardware and software support, and difficulties in assessing and monitoring learning beyond class.

Communication for Awareness and Action on Inequitable Impacts of COVID-19 on Latinos.

In response to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2020, the national Salud America! Latino health equity program at University of Texas Health San Antonio applied its digital content curation model to create and communicate culturally relevant news, stories, and data to raise immediate awareness and generate action against the pandemic's inequitable impacts on U.S. Latinos. Digital content curation is an emerging public health communication strategy using a systematic, refined process to create tailored online and social health messages and prevent mixed messaging and information overload for an audience. Salud America! curated culturally relevant digital content to raise awareness of the pandemic's inequitable impact on Latinos and promote solutions for health equity, with a unique combination of website blog posts exploring pandemic effects on Latinos, peer-modeled stories of people responding meaningfully to the crisis, podcast episodes and Tweetchats engaging people in COVID-19 solutions for Latinos, action tools and campaigns equipping school leaders to make grassroots changes, and supplying advocates with a local data tool on health equity identification. The digital health promotion intervention produced curated content that spiked program website traffic to record highs, revealing the model's effectiveness in increasing exposure to culturally relevant and action-oriented information for a novel topic.

Modelling users’ perceptions of video information seeking, learning through added value and use of curated digital collections

Information seeking research has provided models of users in the search for information across many different contexts and situations. Digital content curation has emerged as a means for managing information and facilitating user learning by adding ‘value’ to digital content in different ways, enhancing the user experience. Using digital video and K–12 education as the context, this study examined factors representing video information seeking, user learning and use of curated video collections both individually and together as user-centred constructs. Two hundred and fifty-two K–12 teachers provided perceptions of their own information seeking processes and for different qualities of curated content and collections within the context of searching digital video for applied purposes. Results extracted underlying factors of these concepts and demonstrated significant relationships between them. Findings enabled the expansion of a model to incorporate both users’ perceptions of information seeking together with user-centred constructs of learning through added value content and use of curated digital collections. Practical implications of the study help establish baselines for future studies for formulating, incorporating and emphasising added value and video curation qualities based on users’ information seeking within the process.

Deploying an e-learning Environment in Zanzibar: Digital Content Curation

Deploying an e-learning Environment in Zanzibar: Digital Content Curation

Curatescape – tworzenie historycznych reprezentacji cyfrowych opartych na lokalizacji – oprogramowanie dla humanistów i instytucji dziedzictwa

Modern information and communication technologies contributed to the emergence of digital humanities, including digital history and “digital historiography”, as well as multimedia and interactive “historical digital representations”. Moreover, the revolution of mobile Internet and devices introduced new perspectives in the area of establishing relationships and sharing knowledge and information. Simultaneously, the need of efficient management and long-term curation of digital content and data for research purposes becomes more and more significant. The intention of the article is to indicate the potential offered by the open-source software Curatescape in the context of creating historical digital representations and “mobile interpretation projects”. The text bases on the Cleveland Historical project, which is a great example of merging digital humanities and public history. The article also aims at signalling possibilities offered by digital humanities to cultural heritage institutions, regional organisations, and educational institutions. This objective was acquired by implementing methods of literature review and case study. The article also presents output of analysis of information architecture and overview of function of the Curatescape suite, that is a set of plug-ins and a graphic theme for the open system Omeka. This text shows the need of cooperation between researchers and employees of heritage institutions, members of local communities, teachers, and hobbyists, in order to create high quality historical content based on geolocation. The research shows, that projects based on the Curatescape may contribute to supporting historical education, creating social memory, activisation of the publicity, development of cultural tourism, and implementing digital curation.

The Collaboration and Application of Digital Content Curation in the University Archives

The Collaboration and Application of Digital Content Curation in the University Archives

The Irish Hills of Michigan

Grounded in the Irish Hills of Michigan, this essay offers performative curation as a method to address the complexities of virtual tourist experiences, in terms of postindustrial, rural, roadside tourism and nostalgic memory. Performative curation juxtaposes tourist accounts, “official” histories, autoethnography, tall tales, dramatic scripts, descriptions of physical artifacts, images, and other texts. As a hybrid of performative writing, collage, and digital content curation, the method is reflexive about the mediation involved in visiting, representing, and remembering tourist locations, and asks the reader to take an explicitly active and ethical role in the virtual tour and meaning-making process.

El bibliotecario académico universitario como curador de contenidos digitales: Precisiones conceptuales y prácticas

La curaduría de contenidos digitales se presenta como una de las nuevas competencias con las que pueden contar los profesionales de la información en el siglo XXI. Este artículo se centra en la figura del bibliotecario académico universitario como content curator o curador de contenidos digitales. A partir de una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica de documentos sobre el tema se describen los procesos de curaduría y se ejemplifican aquellas actividades de esa técnica que este profesional puede desarrollar en conjunción con sus tareas tradicionales dentro de la biblioteca académica universitaria. Lo anterior en el contexto de desarrollo de nuevos servicios de información por parte de esta última institución, producto de las demandas de los usuarios inmersos en el entorno digital.

Exploring Flipboard to Support Coursework: Student Beliefs, Attitudes, Engagement, and Device Choice

The purpose of the study is to explore the use of a mobile application called Flipboard, which facilitates the curation of digital content into a magazine-like product, to engage students in class discussion and participation in a college course. Research questions include: (1) What were students’ beliefs and attitudes regarding the use of Flipboard in the learning environment? (2) How engaged were students in the activity? (3) How did device choice affect student activity in the Flipboard assignment? A survey revealed that most students found the assignment useful and relevant to their learning and read more articles because the magazine was class-created. Device choice did not affect how many articles students contributed, but those primarily using mobile devices read significantly more articles than those using the computer. Implications and recommendations are shared to practitioners.

Curating the Soul: Foucault's concept of hupomnemata and the digital technology of self-care

ABSTRACTThis paper explores how online actions such as the practice of digital self-writing shape our offline identity. We start with an examination of the concept of hupomnemata – a practice of self-writing in which notes are kept as a ‘material record of things read, heard, or thought’ in the intent of shaping the self [Foucault (1997). Self writing. In P. Rabinow (Ed.), Ethics, subjectivity and truth. The essential works of Foucault, 1954–1984. Volume 1 (pp. 207–222). New York, NY: The New Press p. 209] – before arguing that the practice of digital content curation can be understood as a modern-day variant of the Greco-Roman hupomnemata. Although the work of the digital curator is conducted online, this paper positions contemporary curatorial practices as acts of self-exploration, self-cultivation, and self-care, which nourish offline identity and which ultimately work to shape the offline, corporeal self.

Promoting Information Literacy in Higher Education through Digital Curation

[Introduction]: This article argues that digital curation—the art and science of searching, analysing, selecting, and organising content—can be used to promote the development of digital information literacy skills among higher education students. Rather than relying on institutionally approved journal articles that have been pre-ordained as suitable for a given purpose, digital curation tools allow students to evaluate the quality of Web based-based content and then present it in an attractive form, all of which contributes to the cultivation of their digital literacy skills. We draw on a case study in which first- year information and communications technology (ICT) students used the digital curation platform Scoop.it to curate an annotated collection of resources pertaining to a particular topic. The notion of curation has undergone a significant transformation in the wake of an increasingly digital society. To 'curate,' traditionally referred to as 'taking care,' has morphed into a process of cataloguing, accessing, and representing artefacts. In the digital age, curation is a way of sifting, organising, and making sense of the plethora of information; it has become an important life skill without which one cannot fully participate in digital life. Moreover, the ready availability of information, made possible by the ubiquity of Internet technology, makes digital curation an essential skill for the twenty-first 21st century learner. In answer to this need, we are seeing the emergence of suites of digital tools, dubbed ‘curation’ tools, that meet the perceived need to locate, select, and synthesise Web content into open, user-organised collections. With information overload, a distinctive feature of the Internet, the ability to sift through the noise and dross to select high- quality, relevant content—selected on the basis of authority, currency, and fitness-for-purpose—is indeed a valuable skill. To examine this issue, we performed a case study in which a group of first- year Information and Communication Technology (ICT) students curated Web- based resources to inform an assessment task. We argue that curation platforms, such as Scoop.it, can be effective at cultivating the digital information literacy skills of higher education students.

Digital Content Curation and Why It Matters to Librarians

The concept of digital content curation (often referred to simply as digital curation; the term “content” is inserted here to avoid confusion with the work of digital archivists) is an increasingly...

Digital images in museums: Digital desires: What are museums up to?

Digital images in museums: Digital desires: What are museums up to?