Digital curation: organising content into meaningful collections

Since the start of human information recording, we've been shifting, selecting, organising and presenting information to give it meaning and clarity.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, said the principal functions of the internet should

• allow anyone to access any type of document,
• enable everyone to disseminate their documents and
• allow everyone to organise the entire collection of documents.

However, it is not easy to organise web-based digital content or combine it with the vast amount of available information.