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https://www.pinterest.com/amandarhae/digital-literacy-tools/

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Digital curation

Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This is often accomplished by archivists, librarians, scientists, historians and scholars.

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) had this to say, "For research teams to enjoy the full benefit of the research data that is produced, institutions must put in place skilled digital curators and effective curation lifecycle management. This will help to ensure that important digital research data is adequately safeguarded for future use.

By learning how to preserve and share digital materials so others can effectively reuse them, you will maximise the impact of your research – and inspire confidence amongst the research councils and funding bodies that invest in your work".

We had a guest lecturer on the subject, Mrs Sally Witbooi. Personally the subject matter was of interest to me. My dissertation is on preserving indigenous knowledge. I see this as a platform I can use extensively. Thought provoking lecture by Sally.

Sally recently travelled to Finland to present a paper on Digital Curation.

How we have evolved....

Five things you can do to help improve your article’s Altmetric score

Before promoting your article, we recommend that you create (and subsequently use for various promotional efforts) a short summary of your work. This summary should include your key research outcomes (i.e. we did this study on X and got Y results) as well as links to useful additional resources such as videos. This then allows a wider audience to understand and appreciate your research.

1. If you run a blog, add a post about your article. If you have a contact who runs a blog, ask them to help promote your work.
2. Tweet about your paper – either through any existing accounts that you manage or through any society/institutional accounts.
3. Contact your institutional press office to see if your article is relevant for any publicity opportunities.
4. Talk about your paper at your next conference and personally raise awareness of your research within your own community.
5. Create an account with Mendeley and share your work with thousands of fellow academics.

Phil Wright

Phil Wright 
Senior Marketing Manager, Author Marketing

What the dougnut means

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2014/03/04/altmetrics-emphasizing-the-plural/

How to use 'Simple Article Metrics' (Google Chrome extension to get altm...

There are many videos on the internet explaining Altmetrics. I watched an awesome video presented by Jason Priem, (he coined the term Altmetrics). This video, however, was not suitable to upload because it was very long and was aimed at professionals in the field.  I was on the lookout for something simple for the layman to understand. Hope this video helps you make sense of Altmetrics......

Altmetrics

We had a guest lecturer, a PhD student, talk to us about Altmetrics. This was the first time I heard of the term. Suffice to say I was very interested in this lecture, so much so that I am doing a 5000 word essay on the subject. Natasha Langdown was very knowledgable on the subject. She patiently answered questions and explained concepts until we understood.

Altmetrics or 'alterative metrics' is a new and emerging field for measuring the use of scholarly articles.

What does this mean?

Intially (with metrics) if I wrote an article and had it published in a journal. Each time someone cites my article in their paper, thesis and so on, this would be physically counted. Often times this process has lost a lot of important counts because it is done manually and in the time it takes to publish the count, more people would have cited the article. Nowadays we can use Altmetrics to do this. 

More and more scholarly literature is published every year, so it can be a challenge to keep up with the developments in the field, much less the developments in other fields that might be of interest to you. Scholars have always used filters to choose what to read, perhaps preferring certain journals over others or taking the recommendations of colleagues. However, new ways of measuring scholarly output, called “altmetrics,” might provide better ways of picking out the most influential and important new scholarship.

Altmetrics, or “alternative metrics,” are an emerging field of new methods for measuring the use and importance of scholarly articles, particularly in the sciences. As opposed to more traditional bibliometrics, such as Impact Factor, altmetrics provide article-level data and are based on new electronic sources of information, such as number of downloads and page views from a publisher, repository or online reference manager like Mendeley, or the amount of discussion generated in online venues such as Twitter or blogs, video sites, slide shares, facebook and so on.