Digital Curation
Digital curation is another very important consideration for digital humanities scholarship. Digital curation is concerned with the management of digital assets from their inception for the purpose of ensuring that they continue to be useable into the future by counteracting media degradation and technological obsolescence. Although different curation activities are necessary for the wide variety of sources, some of the pertinent tasks include annotation, aggregation, storage, migration to different media or computational systems, and other types of technology preservation (Poole, 2017). Another important consideration for historians and humanities scholars is what is to be incorporated into an archive and what is left out. Some curation choices are constrained by copyright restrictions, and consequently, many historical archives focus on pre-1923 materials (Owens & Padilla, 2021).
