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It regards the organisation and conservation of digital data in a long-term context (ref. 1).

It includes various components from planning data construction and development to ensuring accessibility and appropriateness for future use and discovery (ref. 1).

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Retrieved from: https://vimeo.com/38524181

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This is the first in a series of videos explaining the shifts we're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. In this video, we wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick.

Featured curators include:
Maria Popova (http://twitter.com/brainpicker)
Joanne McNeil (http://twitter.com/rhizomedotorg)
Peter Hopkins (http://twitter.com/bigthink)
Edith Zimmerman (http://thehairpin.com/)
Anthony De Rosa (http://soupsoup.tumblr.com)
Rex Sorgatz (http://twitter.com/fimoculous)
Piers Fawkes (http://psfk.com)
Tina Roth Eisenberg (http://swiss-miss.com)

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There is a surplus of collection tools and educators must pinpoint ones complimenting educational goals of the process (ref. 7). Effective curation tools include:
- Collect topic-related webpages (ref. 7)
- Enable curators to edit and add comments and provide discussion threads for audiences to develop article-related discussion (ref. 7)
- Share and distribute content to audience and wider community (ref. 7)

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Digital curation tools have become and can be utilised as effective learning tools (ref. 8).

Tools like Scoop.it, are flexible, time-saving and fall within curriculum standards (Ref. 8)

Students utilise critical analytical abilities to gather, deconstruct and assess information (ref. 8)

students can also comprehend trends and improve wriitng capabilities within original expression (ref. 8)

they also interact, engage-with and publish to a worldly online audience (ref. 8)

Curation is an essential tool for modern learners, and in a society of surplus-content, people providing relevant content to audiences will be network community leaders (ref. 8)

Within a school setting, students are trained to differentiate relevant and irrelevant content to prepare them for future education and careers, and this can be aided through curating online topics(ref. 8)

For educators, the social extension of digital curation tools like curating magazines and sharing and interacting with different same application users; enables educators to construct magazines within apps centred on certain topics and they can utilise social interaction via a comment system (ref. 7)

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Figure 2

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Figure 1

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Digital curation tools are important for creators and curators of content as they enable people to become both, allowing someone with a specific interest in a specific topic to locate and collate data on the Internet and share with a target audience (Ref. 7).

Many tools are freely accessible online and some enable text and image synthesis such as 'Scoop.it', which utilises a visual-magazine layout to present content (ref. 7), which is collated from online sources (ref. 8)

Scoop.it's layout can be seen in figure 3

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Short-term
- Constant access to dependable data (ref. 1)
- Better quality data and research parameters (ref. 1)
- Protecting certain information's financial value while still enabling re-use of it (ref. 1)

Long-term
- Storing data and protecting it from loss and irrelevance (ref. 1)
- Providing data background information (ref. 1)
- Management body for sustaining data indefinitely (ref. 1)

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Figure 3

'Scoop.it' enables curators to collate, link and upload content, as provide personal comments regarding the content. Viewers are exposed to this curated content via searching relevant keywords or following relevant subject areas and they are presented with appropriate and useful content, which they can discuss and save.