In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown, many museums have developed and put in place online digital offerings. Rebecca Kahn reflects on how museums and museum researchers have approached the digital exhibition as an opportunity for museums to communicate their research in new ways. This post first appeared on Elephant in the Lab as: Corona … Continued
Category: curation
Data (Curation) Viz.
Data management and data curation are related concepts, but they do not refer to precisely the same things. I use these terms so often now that sometimes the distinctions, fuzzy as they are, become indistinguishable. When this happens I return to visual abstractions to clarify —in my own mind—what I mean by one vs. the […]
What Could Curation Possibly Mean?
My colleague Trevor Owens wrote a great blog post entitled “What Do you Mean by Archive?” This led to a follow-up discussion where I publicly announced on Facebook that I wanted to write about the term “curation.” Its seemingly widespread use in popular culture in the past 4-5 years has fascinated me. Every time I […]
DC Representation at IDCC13
The 2013 International Data Curation Conference (IDCC) is being held in Amsterdam this week. The annual gathering brings together a diverse group of data professionals to discuss the present and future of digital curation. Data Conservancy’s Tim DiLauro is …