An interesting take on the repositioning of the curator in a folksonomy enabled network of digital content. Extending the blog format of their very cool collection of feeds, Cont3xt.net bloggers launch a del.icio.us powered tag gallery that teases out the digital environment’s problematization of gallery space and expert curatorship while exploring its potential for something else.
There are very many relevant links in the curatorial section of Cont3xt worth looking out for their approach to databases, collections, and etc.
I’m wondering what we can learn from this in particular instance in terms of setting up a dynamic database that interleaves this kind of folding in of the exterior into similar operations internal to our particular database community. I guess one thing is that tags can be used for selection and sifting. Another might be that one can differentiate between internal and external without this being an absolute differentiation (sifting being the important term here).