Content curation
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Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators. Curation services can be used by businesses as well as end users.
Concept
Kibakaya M. Ngomuo (born 8 aug 1991 in kilimanjaro, Tanzania), also referred to as KAY, is a Tanzanian recording artist, songwriter, youth activist,Producer and Video director.Kay is popularly known for being self-made from the streets upto where he is now. He and his brothers registered an entertainment company which goes by the name OSTRICH GROUP in the year 2016. He received a bigger buzz with the release of his first collaborated single by HASH "BONGOLAND", which in its first week was downloaded over 20,000 times, a feat achieved by no other Tanzanian New artist.Kay as a new cat in the game has already recorded over 8 anticipated collaborations with major A-list artist which are yet to come.He is due to release his first single in the mid 2016.
Methods
Content curation can be carried out either manually or automatically or by combination of them. In the first case, it's done by specially designated curators. In the second case, it's done using one or more of the following:
- Collaborative filtering
- Semantic analysis
- Social rating
Collaborative filtering
Collaborative filtering is a method of forecasting often used in recommendation systems. This principle is based on the axiom that evaluations made by users in the past are predictive of evaluations that they will make in the future.
Collaborative filtering can either be based on votes and views of a given social community, as it's done on Reddit, elCurator and Digg, or the end user's own prior activity, as it's done on YouTube and Amazon.
Semantic analysis
Semantic analysis examines the relationship between the various elements and sources of information found in a given document. The system compares some of the factors or all the information sources topics and terms. This method uses the principles of factor analysis to analyze relationships between the studied phenomena and objects.
This approach has been successfully implemented by services like Getprismatic, Stumbleupon, My6sence, and LikeHack, which break up content according to topic, subtopic, and category. Trapit uses semantic analysis in combination with user feedback and AI technology to refine content selections for its users.
Social rating
This method employs user ratings and recommendations to select content. The system finds someone with interests similar to the end user and bases its recommendations on their activity. This method of selection is widely used on social sites such as Facebook and Flipboard.
Parameters for determining the social ranking are generally based on actions such as shares, vote, Likes, etc., keeping in mind the time that these activities are carried out once the content is published.The more there are such activities in a shorter time, the higher rating this content gets.
"Social curation"[1] services like Pinterest allow users to share and discuss their curated collections of found content.
See also
- Content (mediapoop)
- Digital curation
- Storify
- Pearltrees
- Trapit
- Declara
References
- ↑ Hall, Catherine; Zarro, Michael (2012). "Social curation on the website Pinterest.com". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 49 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1002/meet.14504901189.