Curation

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Curation may refer to:

• Activities:
  • Content curation, the collection and sorting of information
  • Data curation, management activities required to maintain research data
  • Digital curation, the preservation and maintenance of digital assets
  • Evidence management, the indexing and cataloguing of evidence related to an event
  • Cultural heritage management, conservation of cultural sites and resources
• People who perform curation:
  • Curator, manager or overseer, traditionally of tangible assets of a library or museum
  • Biocurator, professional scientist who maintains information for biological databases

See also

• Curate, office and person holding it
• Archive, an accumulation of historical records