What is Digital Curation

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Digital curation is akin to flower gardening in that you select, maintain, and save useful items while weeding the unwanted. The goal of digital curation is to form an online repository of valuable assets with benevolent intention. Learn more in: Curation of Your Online Persona Through Self-Care and Responsible Citizenship: Participatory Digital Citizenship for Secondary Education

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The capacity to select, sort, synthesize and display digital content. Learn more in: Digital Literacy for the 21st Century

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Professional principle of providing collection development, management, preservation, archiving digital asserts, and providing access to electronic information resources. It is generally the process of strategically establishing and developing electronic repositories and adding value for long term access. Learn more in: The Concoct of Digital Preservation in Open Access: A Case of the University of Botswana Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Archive

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The active management, preservation, and enrichment of digital resources. Learn more in: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

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Process for selecting, maintaining, and archiving digital assets for present and future use. Learn more in: Transformative eLearning and Portfolio Careers in Higher Education

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Digital curation is a framework of digital information processing and digital content generation involving steps such as digital imaging, object digitization and scanning, and digital visualization and display. The artefacts will be stored in a digital format with metadata description for further retrieval. Learn more in: The Challenges of Digital Museum