Week Four

Week Four - Play activity

Curation tools - developing online collections

This week we were tasked to explore curation tools in regards to online content and how these curated items (that bare similarities) can be assembled into a type of "online collection". I chose to look at the curation tool Bundlr and look for items relating to Cyclone Yasi and the impact the disaster had on the local area of Townsville. The reason I selected this topic is because in a previous assignment we were tasked with putting together a digital collection and I wanted to see if Bundlr offered a simple way for aggregating resources.

This is the collection I ended up putting together. It's small at this stage but showcases the variety of online materials relating to the topic that can be found.

A challenge of the curation process was deciding whether to curate individual posts or entire feeds, single videos or complete channels. I settled on putting together individual items allowing for visitors to carry out further investigation if they desire. 

I found Bundlr to be easy to navigate, particularly as there is an option to add a browser button that allows you to simply click to add items to your collection. One area that I would've liked included in the Bundlr tool is the option to group items of a similar format. For e.g. videos in one section and news articles in another.

Week Four - Reflect activity 

I have put together an audio recording for the Week Four reflect activity answering the questions:

"Can you see a role for libraries in curating content from around the web? Do you think the curation tools we’ve been looking at this week could be used by libraries? How? Why?"