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Contents 1 Curation (Digital Rhetoric) 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 Definition 1.2 Mediums 1.3 Challenge 1.4 Examples & Abilities 1.5 References

Curation (Digital Rhetoric)

Overview

Curation in digital rhetoric is a means of compiling information and creating value out of digital information and media to better communicate and engage an audience. ^[1] Curation is the way in which a digital archive is filtered and used to present ideas and stimulate questions. The context this curation falls into is that of digital as relating to, using, or storing data or information in the form of digital signals combined with rhetoric as language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience. This curation creates opportunity to access vast archives and participate in picking out the appropriate data to combine with other material in order to build some sort of argument. ^[2]

Digital Curation, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for both current and future use: in other words, it is the active management and appraisal of digital information over its entire life cycle. ^[3] Digital curation refers to the actions people take to maintain and add value to digital information over its lifecycle, including the processes used when creating digital content. (Walters, Tyler; Skinner, Katherine)

Cathy Davidson explains that the first wave of humanities computing brought with it the onset of digital curation—a process that made archival materials widely available on the Web and “transformed how we do research and who can do it” (709). (Enoch and Gold)

Definition

Curate 1. Select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition) 2. Select, organize, and present (online content, merchandise, information, etc.), typically using professional or expert knowledge

Mediums

Challenge

Todd Presner explains, although these new data-mining technologies may “threaten to overwhelm traditional approaches to knowledge,” they do “[allow] us to ask questions that weren’t previously possible.^[4]

Examples & Abilities

Digital Curation for the purpose of rhetoric can span an immense range of archives; historical, scientific, literary, artistic to name a few. Listed below are a sample array of curated archives in digital:

Walt Whitman Archive

The Waste Land Hypertext

References

Resources

1. ↑ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/m.pennock/publications/docs/lib-arch_curation.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/m.pennock/publications/docs/lib-arch_curation.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf