curation

English

Etymology

From Middle English curacioun, curacion, from Old French curacion, from Latin cūrātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjəˈɹeɪʃən/, /kjʊˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tion

Noun

curation (countable and uncountable, plural curations)

1. The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
2. (archaic) The act of curing or healing.
3. (databases) The manual updating of information in a database.
   • 2009, David Edwards, Jason Stajich, David Hansen, Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications:

     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.

Derived terms

• curational

Related terms

• curator

Anagrams

• nocturia

Middle French

Noun

curation f (plural curations)

1. curation; curing; healing