Content Curation

 A fundamental aspect concerning the duties of a researcher that wants to be connected with whatever occurs in his/her field is to keep in touch with the news concerning his/her areas of research. However, it is very difficult to do so without being overwhelmed with the huge amount of news that surrounds us in this 2.0 world we live in. This is known as content curation.

To do so, there are a few of tools that can help us to cope with this overexposure proper of the 21st century. The first of them that I want to share with you is Feedly. In this website, one can build folders according to a certain topic, and include in them several sources related with the topic. Then, one will receive all the post from those sources time-ordered such that there will be no need to go into each of the pages separately to keep updated. For example, in my case I have built a folder related with HEP publications, as you can see in the screenshot below:

You can see on the left the folder named 'HEP Physics' and the sources attached below. Then in the center of the page, diverse news from those sources appear. Feedly is very helpful when it comes to saving time surfing the net for news related to our field os study.

 

The second tool I want to present in this entry is Diigo. Diigo is a tool that helps to create bookmarks to several specific documents, webpages... that one wants to have easily accessible. It allows also to create 'Outliners' which is a way to organize those bookmarks such that one don't just have a lot of bookmarks without them being organized. You can find my profile, where I have all the selected bookmarks in the screenshot below:

 As you can see above, I have saved several articles relate with top quark measurements. However, if I want to see specifically ATLAS t-channel measurements, I have a specific outliner for it (that you can see in the link or in the screenshot below):

 

 

I hope that all of these tools are helpful for your work!!