Digital curation and digital preservation: Conceptual intersections

Digital curation and digital preservation have as object of interest the maintenance of digital information over time. In the scientific literature, they have close definitions, however, digital curation is presented as a natural evolution of the preservation of digital resources management processes. Digital preservation can be understood as a method, process and model. Thus, it was found that there are points of intersection and differentiation elucidating and indicating why a concept appeared after the other and how each is presented in the face of the importance given to the management of large volumes of data, especially scientific data. After comparing the two concepts it was possible to conclude that there is more unity in the understanding of what curation is than there is in the preservation concepts. As a result, it is concluded that both concepts have fields of action that complement the management of digital information as a whole