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==Overview==
==Overview==
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Curation in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rhetoric digital rhetoric] is a means of compiling information and creating value out of digital information and media to better communicate and engage an audience. <ref>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/m.pennock/publications/docs/lib-arch_curation.pdf</ref> 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 (relating to, using, or storing data or information in the form of digital signals combined) with rhetoric (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. <ref>http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf</ref>
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Curation in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rhetoric digital rhetoric] is the process involving the compiling of information for the purpose of constructing a text in order to present a specific argument. Curation at a basic level, involves the selection,organization, and presentation of information accessed from archives. With such a vast amount of data available across a wide range of media, the opportunities of curation are reimagined under the scope of the digital world.  
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"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)." <ref>http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf</ref>
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"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) <ref>http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf</ref>
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Digital Curation for the purpose of digital rhetoric involves the organization of information that is able to contribute value to an author's effective argument. The digital age has brought about new opportunities for curating by way of new media and vast archives. As the field of digital rhetoric emerges, curation is illuminated in a new context.
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==Who curates?==
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The digital age has made access to archives instantly available to anyone with wifi access, making it possible for anyone to create a text for the purpose of presenting an argument.  
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===Definition===
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Traditionally, curators have fallen under the umbrellas of science, history, art, and many other scholarly subjects. <ref>http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/curating-the-digital-world-past-preconceptions-present-problems-possible-futures/</ref> Now these subjects are available in their multitude of archives to draw from when a digital curator sets out to compose a text. Websites and tools are now available and accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of computers and have put tools in place to make it easy for someone to learn how to operate the website for the purpose of curation
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Curate
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==What is a curated exhibit?==
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1. Select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition)
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[[Image:CGIExhib.png | thumb | 300px | alt=An exhibit done with the Omeka tool.]]
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2. Select, organize, and present (online content, merchandise, information, etc.), typically using professional or expert knowledge  
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An exhibit is deliberately curated to form a message and is able to be accessed by the public. Digital Curation has access to incorporating various media into a text including:
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==Media==
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The webpage offers a canvas for the scholar now to attempt to build an argument made up of various media for the purpose of building perspectives.  
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*Photograph  
*Photograph  
*Video
*Video
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===Audio===
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*Music  
*Music  
*Sound Clips
*Sound Clips
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The ability to use these media collectively has been available in museums but what makes digital curation so unique is the
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==Debates of digital curation==
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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." <ref>http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf</ref>
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==Challenge==
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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.<ref>http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf</ref>
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==Examples & Abilities==
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Digital Curation for the purpose of rhetoric can span an immense range of archives; historical, scientific, literary, artistic to name a few.  
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Activity Theory <ref>https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=e_UWDeEca0IC&oi=fnd&pg=PA49&dq=digital+rhetoric+curation&ots=aW8ctpqh-T&sig=niuVJNGiGQ2iS9JONDDvBijF6XA#v=onepage&q=digital%20rhetoric%20curation&f=false</ref>
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Listed below are a sample array of curated archives in digital:
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[http://www.whitmanarchive.org Walt Whitman Archive]
 
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[http://wasteland.windingway.org/poem The Waste Land Hypertext]
 
==References==
==References==

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[edit] Curation (Digital Rhetoric)

[edit] Overview

Curation in digital rhetoric is the process involving the compiling of information for the purpose of constructing a text in order to present a specific argument. Curation at a basic level, involves the selection,organization, and presentation of information accessed from archives. With such a vast amount of data available across a wide range of media, the opportunities of curation are reimagined under the scope of the digital world.

"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) [1]

[edit] Who curates?

The digital age has made access to archives instantly available to anyone with wifi access, making it possible for anyone to create a text for the purpose of presenting an argument. Traditionally, curators have fallen under the umbrellas of science, history, art, and many other scholarly subjects. [2] Now these subjects are available in their multitude of archives to draw from when a digital curator sets out to compose a text. Websites and tools are now available and accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of computers and have put tools in place to make it easy for someone to learn how to operate the website for the purpose of curation

[edit] What is a curated exhibit?

alt=An exhibit done with the Omeka tool.
alt=An exhibit done with the Omeka tool.

An exhibit is deliberately curated to form a message and is able to be accessed by the public. Digital Curation has access to incorporating various media into a text including:

[edit] Visual

  • Photograph
  • Video

[edit] Audio

  • Music
  • Sound Clips

[edit] Debates of digital curation

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." [3]

Activity Theory [4]


[edit] References

Resources

  1. ↑ http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf
  2. ↑ http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/curating-the-digital-world-past-preconceptions-present-problems-possible-futures/
  3. ↑ http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CE/0762-nov2013/CE0762Seizing.pdf
  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=e_UWDeEca0IC&oi=fnd&pg=PA49&dq=digital+rhetoric+curation&ots=aW8ctpqh-T&sig=niuVJNGiGQ2iS9JONDDvBijF6XA#v=onepage&q=digital%20rhetoric%20curation&f=false
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