The Wave Builds: Thinkers beyond the library world suddenly start talking about digital curation.
Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 by matt in Matt's Adventures and Musings
To give you a sense of the sudden traction that our area of expertise has deservedly gained, check out the Snarkmarket Book Project which was posted only yesterday. It has already garnered over 100 pitches of subject matter for the “New Liberal Arts” and more than a third of them concern Digital Curation and/or Internet Archivists.
The Librarian Avengers in the crowd will especially relish this comment by Matt Thompson:
“Library science” is a fusty old term that increasingly fails to fit an ever-expanding and ever-more-important range of skills. “Knowledge management”is weighed down by the awful word “management.” In Matt University, we’d rebrand it “knowledge mastery” or something similarly grandiose. After all, this is becoming critical. How do we capture, structure, sift and preserve enormous bodies of information?
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