curation
noun/kjəˈɹeɪʃən/ · /kjʊˈɹeɪʃən/
Etymology From Middle English curacioun, curacion, from Old French curacion, from Latin cūrātiō.
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The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
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Archaic The act of curing or healing.
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Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The manual updating of information in a database.
- Manual database curation involves the following steps: (1) finding articles of interest; (2) finding and extracting facts (relations, events, associations, etc.) relevant to the database focus; and (3) converting extracted information into predefined standardized form.2009, David Edwards, Jason Stajich, David Hansen, Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications:
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The selective assembly and presentation of information.
- "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest. "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
- Derived terms
- biocuration, cocuration, curational
- Related terms
- curator