"it's not information overload, it's filter failure." Clay Shirky. This mapping tool can help people get an overview of their information resources, their collections and their curation habits.

1. Social Curation Mapping Tool
Social Curation Mapping Tool v 1.0 by Joyce
Seitzinger /Academic Tribe is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License.
What is social curation?
Social curation is the discovery, selection, collection and
sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social
purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity expression
or community participation. An artefact can be any digital
resource, like a link, an article or a video.
“It is not information
overload. It is filter
failure.”
-Clay Shirky
1. Discovery
During discovery you set up,
maintain and visit
information streams for yourself.
2. Selection
During selection you choose
artefacts to keep that meet
your needs or that of your audience.
3. Collection
During collection, you move
selected artefacts into an
appropriate repository.
4. Sharing
During sharing you
communicate the existence of
an artefact to one of your audiences.
List your topics of interest List your favourite artefacts List your favourite collections List three of your audiences
Describe your information streams Describe your selection process Describe your collections Describe your audience
Your discovery tools Your selection tools Your collection tools Your sharing tools
What is the value of your information
streams?
How do you decide the value of an
artefact?
What is the value of your collections? What is the value of your sharing?
Your curation habit
Describe your curation habit.
Curation: Use it or lose it
How will you use the artefacts you have curated?

2. Social Curation Mapping Tool
Social Curation Mapping Tool v 1.0 by Joyce
Seitzinger /Academic Tribe is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License.
What is social curation?
Social curation is the discovery, selection, collection and
sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social
purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity expression
or community participation. An artefact can be any digital
resource, like a link, an article or a video.
“It is not information
overload. It is filter
failure.”
-Clay Shirky
1. Discovery
During discovery you set up,
maintain and visit
information streams for yourself.
2. Selection
During selection you choose
artefacts to keep that meet
your needs or that of your audience.
3. Collection
During collection, you move
selected artefacts into an
appropriate repository.
4. Sharing
During sharing you
communicate the existence of
an artefact to one of your audiences.
List your topics of interest
What are topics you have an interest in?
Be as specific as you can. List as many
as you can and feel free to include
personal, study or work topics.
List your favourite artefacts
What are some of the best resources
you’ve found and kept? Think, what is a
resource you use over and over again? Is
there a video, site or podcast you often
share with others?
List your favourite collections
Which of your own collections couldn’t
you do without? Is there a collection that
someone else has made that you visit
often?
List three of your audiences
List three audiences you cater to. If you
want you can also list three audiences
you are part of.
Describe your information streams
What are key web sites for your topics of
interest? Which communities would you
like to connect with? Who are the key
experts and how can you connect with
them? Where do they blog, tweet,
publish? How can you subscribe?
Describe your selection process
Do you decide on the value of an artefact
in an instant? Is skimming the headline
enough? Or do you process an entire
article or video first before deciding to
save it for safekeeping? What else goes
into your selection process?
Describe your collections
Are your collections very large or do you
have lots of smaller collections? Do you
name your collections? Do you have
subdirectories? Are your collections
private, shared or public? Why?
Describe your audience
Who is your audience? You may have
different audiences for different topics.
Where can your audiences be found? On
the university LMS? On your
organizatio’s intranet? On Twitter?
Facebook? In which communities?
Your discovery tools
List your tools & platforms. For example:
journal databases, Flipboard, Google
alerts, Twitter and Twitter lists, LinkedIn
groups, etc. What do you like? What are
drawbacks? Can you streamline?
Your selection tools
The only tool you really need to make a
decision on whether an artefact is
valuable, is your brain.
Your collection tools
List your tools & platforms. For example:
Evernote, bookmarks, Pinterest,
Scoop.It. What do you like about these
tools? What are drawbacks? Do you
have enough or too many?
Your sharing tools
List your tools & platforms For example
Twitter, Wordpress, Facebook, Facebook
groups, etc. What do you like? What are
drawbacks? Do you need to streamline
your tools?
What is the value of your information
streams?
Do your information streams match the
purpose (study/work/research) for which
you are curating?
Do you have information streams that are
distractions? Can they be muted or
suspended?
How do you decide the value of an
artefact?
Does it have to be unique? Does it have
to be timely? Created by an expert?
Shared by someone you trust? Number
of times it has been shared?
What about its copyright status? How do
you think about open resources?
What is the value of your collections?
Do your collections work for you? How
often do you visit them?
Can you easily search for an artefact?
Can you organize? Can you retrieve?
Can you share them with the people you
need to? Can others comment? Can
others contribute?
What is the value of your sharing?
Why would your your audience view your
collections or artefacts?
What is the value for you in sharing your
artefacts with others? Does it
demonstrate your interest or expertise?
How does it influence your professional
network or your organisation
Your curation habit
Describe your curation habit. How often do you check your information streams? At
what time of the day? Do you mostly do this alone? In class? At work? When you’re
bored? Can you listen to a presentation or a lecture and curate at the same time? Do
you use curation and set up collections in project work?
Curation: Use it or lose it
How will you use the artefacts you have curated? It can be tempting to be forever
grazing, however you also need to put your collections of artefacts to good use. Try to
build in regular times to reflect, eg weekly. Include your collections when preparing a
presentation, a piece of writing or working on a project.