The document discusses the importance of curation in open knowledge management, highlighting the challenges of information overload and the need for effective research and teaching. It introduces various curation tools, particularly Scoop.it, and emphasizes their role in gathering and sharing specialized knowledge across fields, especially in lighting innovation and history. Furthermore, it outlines the strengths and weaknesses of curation practices and their relevance for educators, researchers, and organizations.

1. Curation for OKM in Lighting
Sept 2015, Athens, Greece
CMJ Faure GC Faure
MD, PhD
Prof Immunology
Université Lorraine

2. KM :
Knowledge management
• Surfing the information wave
• In an overload context
• Keeping abreast of information
• For research, teaching, science
watching…
Published papers, Books, Journals
Exponential growth
+ Grey literature: since the 90’s
++ Internet

3. OKM:
OPEN Knowledge Management
Internet
So much information,
it becomes grey
And the OPEN Revolution
OPEN Access (Gold or Green)
an hindrance or an opportunity…

4. Recent Evolutions and Concerns
INFOBESITY
• Too much information is killing information...
• and knowledge!
– Surinformation, Pollution informationnelle,
– Harcèlement textuel
• Networking
– From individuals and communities of interest
– To (social) networks

5. CURATION for knowledge
management
What is curation?
– A recent concept
– Many tools
• Scoop.it Vs other tools
• Experiences with Scoop.it in immunology
• Other experiences for
– Other fields of Research,
– Science mediation
– Information literacy

6. Curation is... gold panning
and goldsmithing
• Selection
– Editorialisation
– Agregation, distillation,
• Commenting
– Elevation, mashup
• Diffusion
– Sharing

7. Curation tools (32)
• Google news
• Pearltrees, Paper.li, Pinterest, TumblR,
Storify, Sharezy, Flipboard...
• Scoop.it
– A french and californian start-up
– Various plans (Individual, Educational, Business)
– Growing 2014: >1,5M curators, >75M posts, 150M
Visitors, 3K companies
» Crawling tool +++
» Format, capabilities of enrichment
searching and sharing +++

8. Lighting Topics
open 4 years ago,
curated everyday since
• Lighting, Innovation, Design
• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-innovation-design
• >3700 scoops, >2800 vis., >5400 views
• Lighting in Art
• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-in-art
• >600 scoops, >1500 vis., >2800 views
• Lighting in History
• http://www.scoop.it/t/lighting-in-history
• 700 scoops, >600 vis., >1100 views
Contents Hubs of lighting information

9. LIGHTING
in History
Antioch 450AD
Gas lights (75s)
From London 1807 to Berlin 2012
Edison (1879)
Lightbulbs (1901)
LEDs (from 1907 to present…

10. Lighting in Art
Paintings
Camille Pissaro 1897
Giacomo Balla 1909
Lighting installations
Luminale… Festival of Lights!

11. Lighting innovation Design
Technical watch
• LEDs >30%
• Implementation in cities everywhere
• Solar lighting (10%)
• Implementation in developing
countries
• Africa
• Smart cities (7%)

12. LIGHTING Innovation Design
Societal Watch
• Costs of lighting (4%)
• Limiting light and security concerns
• Light pollution (4%)
• Ecology (moose, bats, turtles,
birds…)

13. Curation with
• Strengths: Finding information
• Crawling engine,
• And intervention of human specialist for selection, comments,
• Weaknesses
• Human dependency
• Ignorance of the capabilities of curation for research
• Opportunities: Sharing for learning, teaching
• a specialized webmagazine
• a specialized hub content
• Threats:
• Evolution of curation techniques
• Too many resources

14. Curation is for
knowledge management of ...
• Teachers
– Thought leadership and life long learning
» Trainees:
– Basic training and life long learning
• Collectivities
– Scientific Society, Academies
– Interest Networks: ie GEIL, Coultry Club
– Research Labs, Units,
– Companies, with UtoB (University to Business)
opportunities?

15. Curating with Scoop it
Share ideas that matters
• A day to day duty for scientists and
researchers like « Walking the dog »
• Scoop it: a virtual space in the cloud
– to collect and keep highly selected
informations
• As well as information scooped
by other curators in your
community
– to find them when required
• Contents Hubs

16. Summary
• Probably the best curation tool on the web for
serious information
– Crawling engine and enrichment capacities
• A virtual dedicated scientific news
webmagazine and content Hub
• easy to browse, and attractive
– For information literacy and curiosity
– The Search engine inside is a major asset
• The human factor of curation is the added
value compared to robots (SEO): selection,
editorialism
• And also the limit, requiring everyday work

17. Acknowledgments
• Université Lorraine
• G Decugis and M Rougier
• For fruitful discussions
• Other « Light » scoopiters : ecoInsight, Dean
Ernst, Cindy Foster Warthen
• « Light » Facebook friends: Leni
Schwendinger, Light Zoom Lumière,
Luminapolis
• For sharing information
• LIGHTING curated resources were labellized
by « Comité National Lumière 2015».

18. OKCC/C3O
Questions
• Are you interested in the curation
approach?
• Do you want to be a « follower »?
– Register on Scoop.it
• Would you like to curate yourself?
• Register on Scoop.it
• Would you like to support or sponsor a
topic?
• Contact us gcfaure@hotmail.com