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The term curation was once only utilized by museum professionals. Currently, the term seems to have been borrowed by aesthetically-minded persons looking to collect ideas or objects. Through a detailed account of one curatorial process, this article aims to convey the richness of context, the depth of connection, and the promotion of new ideas classically associated with curation. Drawing on these methods, the author begins to develop an outline of curation as a transferrable methodology, useful for exploration of aesthetic works as they related to sociocultural histories. As an exemplar collection of artworks, illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland provide content to explore the depth and breadth of curation as a methodology.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Users are increasingly interacting with machine learning (ML)-based curation systems. YouTube and Facebook, two of the most visited websites worldwide, utilize such systems to curate content for billions of users. Contemporary challenges such as fake news, filter bubbles, and biased predictions make the understanding of ML-based curation systems an important and timely concern. Despite their political, social, and cultural importance, practitioners' framing of machine learning and users' understanding of ML-based curation systems have not been investigated systematically. This is problematic since machine learning - as a novel programming paradigm in which a mapping between input and output is inferred from data - poses a variety of open research questions regarding users' understanding. The first part of this thesis provides the first in-depth investigation of ML-based curation systems as socio-technical systems. The second part of the thesis contributes recommendations on how ML-based curation systems can and should be explained and audited. The first part analyses practitioners' framing of ML by examining how the term machine learning, ML applications, and ML algorithms are framed in tutorials. The thesis also investigates the beliefs that users have about YouTube and introduces a user belief framework of ML-based curation systems. Furthermore, it demonstrates how limited users' capabilities for providing input data for ML-based curation systems are. The second part evaluates different explanations of ML-based systems. This evaluation uncovered an explanatory gap between what is available to explain ML-based curation systems and what users need to understand such systems. Informed by this explanatory gap, the second part of this thesis demonstrates that audits of ML systems can be an important alternative to explanations. This demonstration of audits also uncovers a popularity bias enacted by YouTube's ML-based curation system. Based on these findings, the thesis recommends performing audits to ensure that ML-based systems act in the public's interest.

This OER curation is an annotated bibliography of prospective OER for the GVSU course INT 312: Collaborative Communication, assembled by request from the instructor.

Digital Curation Training: The nestor Activities

Curated databases play a crucial role in the scientific endeavour, and software tools are needed to support the work of curators. This talk describes a curation interface that we are developing using the cross-tier programming language Links [1]. Links uses language-integrated query, making it possible to generate well-formed and type-safe queries instead of manually constructing SQL. Links combines database and web programming capabilities that together ease implementation of typical scientific databases together with their Web front-ends. Recent re-implementation in Links of the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY [2] has demonstrated that Links is well-suited for developing tools for the display, querying and curation of real-world scientific data [3]. We consider the scenario where there is periodic update data that is to be added to the database which include corrections to previous data. This update data could come from one source such as release of government figures, or from multiple users proposing changes. These corrections are significant, and part of the curation effort is to understand why they have happened to ensure data quality and to understand data limitations. This scenario of updates is seen in the regular statistics that have been released about the Covid-19 pandemic. When this type of scientific data is provided or collected intermittently, it is often stored in CSVs on GitHub. This makes data available but does not provide tools to understand how the datasets have changed. Similarly, curation tools are lacking for online permanent data repositories such as Figshare. A standard database can be seen as a snapshot of reality at a particular time point. However, for certain curation tasks, more information is required. For example, a history of the changes to the data may be important for reasons of provenance and to support data change analysis. Furthermore, the database may need to contain information about when a fact was true in the case of information update. Databases that support this ...