to catalog, protect and manage recovered artifacts

storage of artifacts and samples by a museum to protect the archaeological collection and make it available for display or the use of other researchers.

removal of fossil from surrounding rock (preparation), cataloguing (numbering), and storage of specimen insuring retrieval for later educational purposes.

The process of verifying and enhancing data submitted to bioinformatics databases. Curators verify automated annotation of data, and add in-context descriptions of molecular, biochemical, and cellular function.

Cure; healing.

Curation is the process of identification and organization of artworks in order to further knowledge.

To take care of, to manage, or to provide access to.