Collections part 3: You as a collection
We express our identities through our collections. Online these collections take the form of Amazon wishlists, Last fm playlists and lists of friends on Facebook. Perhaps less consciously we have search histories, purchase profiles and a trail of cookies picked up from website visits.
In David Siegel’s book Pull he posits a future where our [...]
Collections part 2: Collections of things
The initial impetus for writing this series of posts was the increasing presence of information architectures driven by metadata and the impact this has on editorial curation.
How does moving from a document focused view of the world to a thing focused view change the role of the collection?
We took Wildlife Finder as our example. Wildlife [...]
Collections part 1: Collections of links
In my last post I presented the case for the use of collections as an editorial layer on top of a metadata driven site. One of the most common types of collection in online journalism are lists of links around a story – commonly referred to as link journalism.
Link journalism is linking to other reporting [...]
The importance of curation in a metadata driven information architecture
How do you retain a sense of editorial voice and craft as information architectures become increasingly metadata driven?
In my work with BBC Journalism we have been attempting to take the philosophy of Tom Scott’s Wildlife Finder and applying it to News and Sport. Our starting point has been the Winter Olympics.
The step change was in [...]