{"id":1423,"date":"2016-11-27T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T11:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T09:10:19","slug":"curate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/11\/27\/curate\/","title":{"rendered":"things to create, curate, collate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1431\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/homepage1-300x236.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1431\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/homepage1-300x236-300x236.png\" alt=\"OpenAdvent homepage (2011) CC-BY University of Oxford\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OpenAdvent homepage (2011) CC-BY University of Oxford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Creating a curated collection is one of my favourite passtimes. Selecting items from a larger collection and\u00a0 curating a subset for an exhibition or theme can amuse me for hours. Digital curation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.23things.ed.ac.uk\/week-8\/#curate\">Thing15 of our 23 Things.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do think this is one way in which discerning people can add value to the internet. Making curated pathways through the never ending maze of linked content.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of curated sets I have created include:<\/p>\n<p>Three online advent calendars which showcased the Oxford OER collections and OUCS services on a Christmas theme. It was not an arduous task ; the collections are rich and wonderful, and the premise of generous giving suits the spirit of the task. The calendars were wordpress sites scheduled to publish a new post each day in Dec.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/openadvent\/\">Open Advent: 24 open educational resources free to use, not just for Christmas. (2011)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/opensleigh\/\">Open Sleigh: A sled-load of wonderful things given as gifts for Christmas (2012)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/onlinepresents\/\">Online Presents:\u00a0 Oxford\u2019s online presence (2013)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also encouraged my <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/11\/24\/hearing-things\/\">podcasting teams in Oxford<\/a> to develop a tool for the podcasts.ox website to enable us to showcase a handpicked collection drawn from accross the collection e.g. some of our best female academics on interational women&#8217;s day. At the moment the tool\u00a0 is being used as &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/people\">featured people<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh\/Events_and_Workshops\/Edinburgh_Gothic\">Edinburgh Gothic editathon<\/a> I learned how to curate a timeline using <a href=\"http:\/\/histropedia.com\/timeline\/4f2rtpg9bg0t\/Gothic-fiction\">Histropedia.<\/a> If the internet keeps producing tools like this for curating content I may be done for.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t managed to persuade anyone at Edinburgh to join me in an &#8216;Advent of technology&#8217; or &#8216;Internet of free things&#8217;. But I did get Charlie to curate this set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.23things.ed.ac.uk\/\">23 things<\/a> and the world is a better place for it.<\/p>\n<p>Update: As of 1 December there now is an Open Advent calendar at Edinburgh. <a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/open-unwrapped-an-advent-of-open\/\">Check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a curated collection is one of my favourite passtimes. Selecting items from a larger collection and\u00a0 curating a subset for an exhibition or theme can amuse me for hours. Digital curation is Thing15 of our 23 Things. 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