Kate Gordon
From DigitalRhetoricCollaborative
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Curation (Digital Rhetoric)
Overview
The concept of curation in terms of digital rhetoric refers to 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.
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
What this article itself is presenting is an example of a digital curation (link this) but in the context of digital rhetoric. Digital as relating to, using, or storing data or information in the form of digital signals and rhetoric as language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.
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. (Pennock) 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)
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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.[2]
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