curation

Definitions

1. The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of curing or healing.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. The manual updating of information in a database.
   countable, uncountable
4. The selective assembly and presentation of information.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“"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."”

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