curation

plural curations

1. countableuncountableThe act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
2. archaiccountableuncountableThe act of curing or healing.
3. countableuncountablecomputingThe 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

4. countableuncountableThe selective assembly and presentation of information.

   1 more example

   "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