# Curator Role

The curator maintains the standards and lists of officially-sanctioned packages. The curator keeps all of the package versions synchronized. The curator might be the same person who fills the developer role.

The approval process for adding a packaging is up to your organization, and might vary from minimal to extensive, depending on your usual practices. Designate a developer familiar with open-source R and TERR packages to be the package curator. The package curator works with package developers and server administrators to perform the following management tasks.

- Maintains the list of tested and sanctioned package versions (the gold standard), which would be the set of packages available for general use under Spotfire applications.
- Ensures that the SPK containing the gold standard package versions are placed on the Spotfire Server, distributed to Spotfire analysts who develop visualizations that use them, and available to Spotfire Business Author users running data functions through the TERR service on the Spotfire Server.
- Creates and manages the organization's in-house repository from where all users can install packages.
- Ensures that the gold standard package versions are uploaded to Spotfire Statistics Services for use by Spotfire Business Author users.

Note: Package versions used by these services must be kept synchronized.