Curation is a hot topic in regard to the internet but curation is nothing new — most of us do it without even thinking about it.
Take a look around your home and you will likely see many curations:
- Your book shelf is probably a curated collection of your favourite books — you got rid of the ones you didn’t like.
- Your coffee table or books in your living room. These are likely the books that you want your visitors to see, they say something about you, it is a carefully curated expression of you.
- The same with your music. I know that most music collections are digital and live in your iTunes library but many people still love to show off their collections in their homes, especially their vinyl.
- The artwork on your wall. Wall space is a limited commodity, so that means you’ve made some very deliberate choices.
- Photo libraries. With digital photos so easy to take it is easy to amass a huge number of photos. This means you have to get rid of many photos because the collections become unmanageable very quickly. Your editing of your photo collection is a curation.
- Browsing the internet you probably have your bookmarks, which is a curated list of web sites.
