What is DataCurate?
We’re here to help you identify, create, and manage the right data to connect people with content that really matters to them. Curation of your product data (metadata) is the first step in moving to curated content that will stand out in the marketplace. DataCurate provides services and information designed to produce and maintain the right metadata to help people find and use your stuff.
We also care about how the right data can help you grow and succeed in the management of your business, institution, or organization. Maintaining and mining the right metadata drives meaningful business intelligence, search engine optimization, and targeted analysis of how your content is discovered and used.
Getting to the right data is a collaborative process. DataCurate works closely with you to determine your needs and help you identify the right data strategies, workflows, and systems for your organization.
What are data and content curation?
The amount of content and accompanying metadata continue to grow at a faster and faster pace. The electronic marketplace is flooded with metadata about both physical and digital content. Increasingly this metadata relates to content that is available in multiple formats and from multiple providers – retailers, wholesalers, aggregators, libraries, and even individuals. It’s becoming more difficult for people to find what they want and decide where to get it.
This has resulted in a move toward thoughtful selection and exposure of focused, curated content to help you stand out in a flooded marketplace. Data curation makes it much easier for you to identify and expose content that really matters to users. Good metadata is the single most important element driving discovery, marketing, and curation strategies that will connect your content to the
people who care about it.
Who needs data curation?
Any business, organization, or institution that manages data leading to the discovery of content will benefit from data curation. This includes publishers and other content creators along with the retailers, wholesalers, libraries, and aggregators who provide content to users.
- Take a look at DataCurate’s Philosophy to discover more about the importance of curated data and content.
- Read more about how our Services can help you make the leap.
- Contact us to tell us more about your organization and find out how DataCurate can help.
About the Curator
The Curator is a blog hosted by DataCurate, We’ll publish themed issues with contributions from multiple authors several times a year. DataCurate posts and dialogue about data and content curation are ongoing.
We welcome proposals for contributions to upcoming themed issues and suggestions for themes. Contact us to make suggestions for blog content or to submit a proposal.
To find out more about upcoming themes and view all posts, go to The Curator Archives and Categories.
DataCurate Resources is a frequently updated, curated list of books, articles, research, organizations, and other resources of interest to publishers and libraries. Featured resources will be selected and displayed on this page each month.
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Check out this month’s featured resources below or browse the entire collection.
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
Gotham, 2011
Here’s a fascinating and accessible look at the history and influence of font design on publishing, advertising, and communication in general. The well-chosen illustrations add to the layperson’s understanding and help to evoke our often-unconscious responses to typography in everyday life.
The Digitization of the Music Industry vs. the Book World: The Ultimate Overview
Written by Timo Boezeman & Niels Aalberts, with important additions and nuances by Erwin Blom, Eric Rigters and Jelte Nieuwenhuis.
FutureBook, November 2011
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
In case you missed it, this four-part series of blog posts from FutureBook offers good overviews of music and book industry history, describes changes imposed by the rise of digitization, and explores implications for the future of the book.
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jason Lanier
Knopf (hardcover), Vintage (pbk.), c2010, 2011
Originally published in 2010, this remains a must-read for anyone interested in the history and future of the web. Whether you ultimately agree or disagree with aspects of Lanier’s controversial manifesto, use the experience to break through what’s already become conventional thinking about the internet and challenge yourself to explore the role of the individual at the intersection of culture, technology, and commerce.
Innovation Starvation by Neil Stephenson
World Policy Journal, Fall 2011
Big thinking from sci-fi luminary Neal Stephenson regarding the danger of narrow mindsets, risk aversion, and the role of the internet in stifling 21st century innovation.
Featured Link
Brain Pickings curated by Maria Popova
The description on the site expresses the content pretty well! “Brain Pickings is a discovery engine for interestingness, culling and curating cross-disciplinary curiosity-quenchers, and separating the signal from the noise to bring you things you didn’t know you were interested in until you are.” Follow Maria on twitter and her well-managed tweets - @brainpicker – will keep you apprised of the frequently updated posts.
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