[1] In science, data curation may indicate the process of extraction of important information from scientific texts, such as research articles by experts, to be converted into an electronic format, such as an entry of a biological database.
[5] In broad terms, curation means a range of activities and processes done to create, manage, maintain, and validate a component.
[8] Census data has been available in tabulated punch card form since the early 20th century and has been electronic since the 1960s.
[10] The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) website marks 1962 as the date of their first Survey Data Archive.
[18] The Protein Data Bank was established in 1971 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and has grown into a global project.
FlyBase, the primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae, dates back to 1992.