The Data Curation team manages data throughout its lifecycle, from ingestion to dissemination and long-term archiving.

The team develops policies and standard operating procedures that align with best practice standards, such as the FAIR Principles and the Open Archival Information System reference model, and ensures that the data managed by uLwazi follow those policies and standards throughout their lifecycles. The Data Curation team is also working towards fufilling the requirements needed to become a Trusted Digital Repository.