StoriedPlace Toolkit
Story Curation
The Curation stage considers which stories are retained for your project, and which are left out. This guide helps with the key ethical and technical considerations in this process.
In the Curation stage, we explore how to make decisions about which stories are retained for the project, and how (and if) stories change. Curation also involves creating and maintaining an archive of stories for future use.
We suggest that curation of your story collection involves five parts – understanding the context of the collection, recognising and acknowledging the voice of the stories in your collection, examining ethical considerations, using appropriate methods and considering the sustainability of the process and its outcomes. This part of the toolkit helps to guide you through the process, while acknowledging that each project or process can be different.
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Read more about the Curation stage of the StoriedPlace toolkit on this page before proceeding to its steps.
Understanding context is vital for the curation process. Linking back to the Collection stage, considering the people, place and purpose of a story collection, can help to make decisions in this part of the project.
For curation, the role of voice is equally important and may be subject to edits, changes and removal dependent on the curatorial goals. This page raises key questions for consideration.
The curation of stories can lead to legal and moral considerations as you choose which stories to retain and preserve. On this page, we guide you through some key questions and issues to consider.
There are many ways that stories can be curated. On this page, we guide through potential approaches to editing, storing and formatting your story collection.
Future-proofing stories’ archives and repositories is an essential element of story curation for any project. This page provides key reflection points in this process.