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countable and uncountable, plural curations
The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts. examples
(archaic) The act of curing or healing.
(databases) The manual updating of information in a database. quotations 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.
2009, David Edwards, Jason Stajich, David Hansen, Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications