Curation
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Curation may refer to:
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- Curation, in English law, a guardianship.
- Evidence management, indexing and cataloguing of evidence.
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- Curation, the process of identification and organization of artworks or museum objects in a collection in order to further knowledge. It includes verification and additions to the existing documentation for objects. Curators, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics web page:
- …direct the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections, including negotiating and authorizing the purchase, sale, exchange, or loan of collections.[2]
- Curation, the process of examining, testing and selecting information to go in a collection database.[3]
- Sheer curation, a minimalist form of digital curation.
- Archiving, historical record keeping.
- Digital curation.
- Evidence management, indexing and cataloguing of evidence.
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- ^ curation. Dictionary.com. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/curation (accessed: 27 March 2007). curation. www.oed.com, Oxford University Press, Ltd. (accessed: 27 March 2007).
- ^ Museums Explained: Definitions
- ^ Axiope glossary
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