Digital Curation

= the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, and historians, and scholars generally.

Description

"The advent of affordable global digital connectivity of unprecedented scale and scope has created opportunities not only for more effective and efficient research, but also for new, better, faster and previously impossible research. Curation and management, of research results, are seen as the active management and appraisal of digital content during the entire life-cycle of scholarly and scientific interest; and are paramount to reproducibility and re-use for periods longer than 20 years." (http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/openingscholarship/2007/10/12/the-1st-african-digital-curation-conference)

Discussion

Digital curation vs. knowledge depository, at http://oklahomalawlibrarianblawg.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/digital-curation-vs-knowledge-repository/