Curatorid

Curatorid is a term used in information management and digital curation to denote a unique identifier assigned to an individual who curates content within a collection. The identifier serves to attribute actions, track contributions, and control access in workflows and provenance records.

In practice, a curatorid is typically a string composed of alphanumeric characters, sometimes with a prefix or a GUID/UUID form. It may be system-specific (for example, a CUR- followed by digits) or based on a universal identifier such as a UUID. The important property is uniqueness within the system so that each curator’s activities can be reliably linked to their profile.

Curatorids are used in metadata records to attribute items to their curators, in audit trails and version histories, and in access-control lists to grant or restrict permissions. They enable multi-user collaboration by providing a stable reference to each curator regardless of name changes or job titles.

Security and privacy considerations include protecting the mapping from curatorids to real identities, limiting exposure in public interfaces, and enforcing access controls on the identifiers themselves.

Standardization varies by domain; there is no universal schema named “curatorid.” In many platforms, it appears as a field in user accounts and metadata schemas alongside other identifiers such as author or contributor IDs. See also provenance, metadata, attribution, access control.