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3.2 Curación de contenido

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Library Content Curator (YFNLCC)


 Content curation is the process of gathering and filtering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators. The concept is not new. Museums and galleries have curators to select items for collection and display. There are also curators in the world of media, for instance DJs of radio stations tasked with selecting songs to be played over the air. but perhaps the Internet with its vast offer of information has given rise to more specific curation methods that include Collaborative Filtering, Semantic Analysis and Social Rating.



Librarians are also curators when they select the books they want to display or recommend. On a table in the library of the EOI Ávila we have a "book of the month" selection in the different languages. The Libraries already have a form of curation inherent to the library system. Books are ordered to subject, genre and other criteria. Our library has two main criteria: Language and Level. There are 5 main sections for the 5 languages that we teach (French, English, Spanish, Italian and German) and within each language we divide into Original and Abridged Literature. The Abridged readers are subdivided into 6 levels.



However, there is no further division. I have mentioned in other tasks of this course the cross-reference methods used by Lupa del Cuento, for example, which allows us to find books with similar topics. The system of badges for synopsis and blurb writing that I suggested elsewhere in this blog (Superlectores) would also provide a selection of work that has been evaluated and assessed and which allows the readers to be more selective and eclectic in their choice of Reading material.

For this task, then, I decided to create a subdivision based on the type of narrator in Literature. I thought the concept of the Unreliable narrator as opposed to the Omniscient Narrator could be an interesting starting point. I know this would be too arduous a task for our EOI Library and with few or no benefits and is therefore only valid for this exercise.


It is true that our Readers face a wall of books in the language of their choice. The original novels are ordered alphabetically, but the graded readers, being so thin, are lumped together according to the 6 levels mentioned above. My system would be called: The Unreliable Narrator

Below I will print a website simulation poster to give an idea of the looks and scope of my curation system. Most images inside the poster would be links to book synopses  and a more extensive definition of the different unreliable narrators.


Below I will repeat the 5 Narrators each as a link to a book taken as example for the genre. I'm merely experimenting with a possible interaction between my blog and Pinterest (Click on the Logo to go directly to my Pinterest Table) . I'm trying to find a way to "anchor" parts of my Blog so as to create Links within the same page.






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