curations

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. 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
4. 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...2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024