Curation
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Curation may refer to:
  • Digital curation
    Digital curation
    Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets.Digital curation is generally referred to the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists,...

    , the preservation and maintenance of digital assets
  • Sheer curation, a minimalist form of digital curation


Curation may also be:
  • The work performed by a curator
    Curator
    A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

  • Archiving, historical record keeping
  • Evidence management
    Evidence management
    Evidence management is the administration and control of evidence related to an event so that it can be used to prove the circumstances of the event, and so that this proof can be tested by independent parties with confidence that the evidence provided is the evidence collected related to the...

    , indexing and cataloguing of evidence
  • Cultural heritage management
    Cultural Heritage Management
    Cultural heritage management is the vocation and practice of managing cultural heritage. It is a branch of cultural resources management , although it also draws on the practices of conservation, restoration, museology, archaeology, history and architecture...

    , conservation of cultural sites and resources
  • Healing
    Healing
    Physiological healing is the restoration of damaged living tissue, organs and biological system to normal function. It is the process by which the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic area....

    , medical curing of illness
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