Digital Curation

Digital Curation at Zug Primary The library team is looking at ways of doing research more effectively. We know that how we access information has changed. WHAT HAPPENS ON THE INTERNET IN 60 SECONDS

We need to find better ways of gathering information than just a standard Internet search. The Zug Campus library team wants to teach community members how to find and locate information effectively, both in the physical and virtual space. A solution to effective information gathering in a virtual space is Digital Curation. We are currently figuring out a way to curate digital information so that it becomes easily accessible to our students.

 Information is found through a variety of online sources and we need to make these sources accessible in an organized efficient way. As we construct meaning and personal understanding from a range of different information sources, we need to access this information on the Internet in a better way.

There are experts out there curating information on every topic, and we have to find a way to tap into the information that they have gathered. A typical search for information has us looking through vast amounts of ‘hits’ or ‘results’. We need a more efficient way of finding and sorting this information. We need to access the curators of this digital information or curate it ourselves so that we can streamline student research. Too often the problem when doing research is not too little but rather too much information.

Take a look at the ISZL LIBRARY DIGITAL CURATION SITES and see if there is a new way you or your child might locate information and do research in a different way. These are not the only curating tools, just some student friendly sites.

We are developing a research tool kit that will be available on here on the library blog soon! Tools that will help us evaluate the information, as well as how to find the information. When looking at a site of information about any topic we need to look at:
Currency
 Reliability
 Authority
 Purpose/Point of view

We ask students to cite their sources as early as 3rd grade and hope that this will become habitual practice. We also need to ask them to think about annotation too, this may be as vital as a citation, something we all should be considering as we look at any site we use.
Who wrote it?
Why did they write it?
How does it help?
 We need to get kids to think like scientists or journalists or artists. Searching is not about getting quick answers. It is the process of coming to the right question, to the knowledge we need.