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Curation ???????

by foxtrot3
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Will somebody please explain to me what the word CURATION means.

It must be a big deal since I've seen it mentioned in a dozen or so WSO's
lately but I have not the foggiest idea what it means.

Anyone care to enlighten me?


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#curation
  • Profile picture of the author SEOSoftworks
    "Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets."

    Essentially taking content already published and reusing it on your own website. Proper curation involves adding your own description/paragraph and changing the title of the article. You should avoid taking the entire article, only part of it with a link back to source website.

    That's curation in a nutshell..different then auto-blogging.

    Mashable, Drudge report and the Huffington Post are big examples...if done properly it's good for both parties.

    I just don't know if it's a fad...it seem pretty good right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author kolbywhite28
    How about checking an online dictionary?
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  • Profile picture of the author boutiquecontent
    Content curation involves collecting other people's content and presenting it on your site with your own spin added in. Done well it adds value by putting the information into context for your readers and providing them with resources they probably wouldn't otherwise find.
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  • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
    "Curation" is what some marketers are nowadays calling 'publishing links to web pages along with a description of the page that is being linked to'.

    Also, there is at least one Warrior Forum member who has taken "curation" a step further and considers "curation" to mean copying articles from other web sites and publishing them on his own web site. You can do that though if you're doing "curation" because "curation" is an important job so of course the common rules regarding to plagiarism don't apply to something as important as "curation".

    You should read this article on "curation" which states that:

    “Curation” is an act performed by people with PhDs in art history; the business in which we’re all engaged when we’re tossing links around on the internet is simple “sharing.”
    ... and that ...

    we should not delude ourselves for a moment into bestowing any special significance on this, because when we do this thing that so many of us like to call “curation” we’re not providing any sort of ontology or semantic continuity beyond that of our own whimsy or taste or desire.
    (hey, I think I just "curated" a web page)

    That's right. Don't let anyone fool you. Curation is a buzzword, a new label for something that's been done since the web was born (linking to web pages on other web sites along with a description or an excerpt). In 5 years, there will probably be another, new, important sounding name for "linking to other web pages while providing descriptions of those web pages".
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  • Profile picture of the author Oliver Williams
    The benefit is that it allows you to add high quality content (if done correctly) to your website.
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