Data curation (Topical Term)

Work cat: Jahnke, L. The problem of data, ©2012: page 1 (data curation, a term generally defined as a set of activities that includes the preserving, maintaing, archiving and depositing of data to keep it secure, intact, and accessible for reuse. The term can also comprise the conceptualization and creation of digital objects).

CLIR resources, July 24, 2015: data curation (The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science defines data curation as "the active and ongoing management of data through its life cycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality, add value, and provide for reuse over time, and this new field includes authentication, archiving, management, preservation, retrieval, and representation."

Wikipedia, July 24, 2015: Data curation (a term used to indicate management activities required to maintain research data long-term such that it is available for reuse and preservation)