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  Summary of Data curation preservation issues (Budgets, costs Staffing and skills) Introduction Digital curation is the process of selecting, safeguarding, maintaining, compiling and preserving digital content. It creates, maintains and improves digital information for use in the present and the future. Digital curation is also used to overcome digital obsolescence for the long-term preservation (Feng and Richards, 2018). The term “digital curation” combines the terms “digital preservation” and “curation,” the latter of which refers to actions that enhance the worth and knowledge of digital content (Bénard and Bel, 2013). Consequently, informational organisations struggle to maintain digital assets due to interconnected vulnerabilities regarding Budget, cost, financial staffing and skills competencies (Zareef, M & Jabeen, M., 2025). Budgets and Costs Financial constraints, including limited access to essential tools, hinder the ability of data curators to provide advanced serv...

  Summary of Data curation preservation issues (Organisational Issues). Introduction Digital curation, also known as data curation, represents the systematic process of maintaining, preserving, and enhancing digital research information across its entire lifespan (Digital Curation Centre, 2017). In practical terms, it serves as a dynamic data management practice that links datasets to facilitate subsequent analysis and conclusion-drawing. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois defines data curation as the proactive and continuous administration of data for as long as it remains valuable to academic research, science, and education. These curation practices streamline data discovery and retrieval, safeguard quality, enrich utility, and ensure ongoing reusability by incorporating crucial functions such as verification, archival storage, governance, long-term preservation, recovery, and structured representation. Funding, resource Co...

                                                                                            Figure 1. Digital curation process Introduction Digital preservation and curation ensure that diverse electronic resources remain accessible, authentic, and understandable over time. As reliance on digital storage grows, protecting these assets becomes critical. However, constant threats compromise long-term data integrity, making an understanding of these challenges fundamental to developing sustainable curation strategies (Corrado & Sandy, 2017). Rapid technological obsolescence and physical media deterioration severely threaten digital materials. Evolving systems render formats like floppy disks or old word-processor fi...