capturing generally refers to the activity of creating digital surrogates of real world objects, or expressing existing artifacts in a digital representation. This refers basically to learning and noticing something (as in discovering) and could be enhanced by a manual process (as in transcribing) or an automated procedure (as in imaging, data recognition or recording). This also includes aggregating resources, information and data (as in gathering).

https://vocabs.dariah.eu/tadirah/en/page/capturing