Terms in use...
This is just the start of an accumulation and discussion of terms used to describe aspects of digital content durability:
Digital Preservation: all of the activities an organization or individual engages in to ensure the long-term readability and usefulness of specific digital content
Digital Stewardship: contributions to the longevity and usefulness of digital content by its caretakers that may occur within, but often outside of (before, during, or after), a formal digital preservation program
Digital Curation: combination of data curation and digital preservation (note: a term introduced then promulgated by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK)
Data Curation: the value-added activities and features that stewards of digital content engage in to make digital content meaningful or useful (note 1: this term may specifically refer to specific types of research data or to digital content more generally; note 2: from a preservation perspective, all of the changes that affect digital content from its creation onward should be documented, including changes that results from data curation)
