Curation natural drivers

An information resource has value only when someone verifies, organises and curates it. Without context, it is disconnected from other relevant resources. It's like having an ingredient without a recipe.

Curation gives context to any information item to look at and appreciate. When the info...

We live in the age of information, meaning that our ability to succeed are increasingly connected to our ability to manage and efficiently leverage information.

Stephanie Hatch Leishman, a former MIT social media strategist, states that “curation is using your expertise in a field to ga...

Curation requires vetting, verification, resource-finding, providing a viewpoint and an ability to re-organise what is of value.

• Curation takes more time and effort than writing.
• It takes more competence, experience and skill than writing.
• You need to be a subject matte...

• Curators desire to organise an information space and make it easy for others to extract immediate value.
• The desire to share, inform, educate, and entertain a community of people interested in the same topic.
• The need to make sense of a subject by exploring, collecting, and c...

• Curation helps people understand and learn better.
• Curation guides people to discover and learn about a subject in greater depth.
• Curation saves people time by bringing the right information into focus.
• Curation facilitates the discovery of new or rare, or unknown val...