Quite often I am addressed by architects the question “What are the benefit for us of dealing with data management?”. I think the first and unsatisfactory answer should be “The very Architects professional development and a stronger legal management for their products.”, but I usually try to go into the details of what data management actually is within architectural practices – that is explaining its coincidence with digital design workflows and not just post-hoc archival procedures.

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Having settled that the variation among competing terms describing the activity of managing digital products is due to more than confusion or carelessness, in order to expand on the unique scope of this project, it is worth to explain the affiliation of this research to the Digital Curation field. Let's put aside here any obvious genealogical consideration arising from the context where this research developed and now is hosted, that is the HATII, a world leading institution in this field.

So, which aspects of the Digital Curation approach to investigation and curatorial practice are crucial for this investigation?

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