Historically governments paid librarians to curate information. With the arrival of the internet that job has been left to for-profit search engines who manipulate the results for their own benefit. People tolerated that, but with the arrival of AI slop there is a stronger need for human curated content. This talk will review the history of content curation, my own experiences, useful technologies, and future directions.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together a community of people who want to build a human curated taxonomy or knowledge graph of the Fediverse. To make the ideas concrete, we will split into smaller groups, focused on software, marketing, people, communities, organizations and other topics. Each group will create a different branch of the directory. It is hoped that the project will continue after the conference is over.