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Does anyone know if there an authoritative definition of "digital stewardship" out there, particularly one defining its relationship to the term "digital curation," which has been fairly well defined across the pond by the Digital Curation Centre's Digital Curation Lifecycle model? Asking for an internal taskforce stymied by the number of nigh-interchangeable terms for work with digital content. Does anyone feel strongly about the use of one over the other, and if so, which do they use when? I am currently brewing a theory that digital stewardship is used to designate both collecting and preservation lifecycle work, but only within the specific realm of libraries and archives doing cultural heritage digitization and born-digital tasks. I see digital curation in use more broadly to refer to the same activities in scholarly research and communications communities, in addition to pockets of GLAM. This indicates, to me, that curation the wider term and stewardship the narrower. However, the SAA Dictionary (which has a good but inconclusive set of citations for both terms) designates the stewardship as the wider term and curation as the more narrow term (https://dictionary.archivists.org/entry/digital-stewardship.html). Does NDSA agree with SAA? -- Lindsey Memory Digital Content Manager Digital Initiatives Department Head 1157 BYU Library (801) 422-6723