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| {{Short description|High-volume, widespread organized collection of data}}
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| In [[database management]] and [[information architecture]], a '''data bank''' or '''databank''' is a repository of information about one or more subjects, that is, a [[database]] which is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval and is able to process many continual queries over a long period of time.
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| A ''data bank'' may also refer to an organization primarily concerned with the construction and maintenance of such a database.
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| A data bank may be either centralized or decentralized, though most usage of this term refers to centralized storage and retrieval of information, by way of analogy to a monetary [[bank]]. The [[data]] in a data bank can be anything from scientific information like global temperature readings, and governmental information like census statistics, to financial-system records like credit card transactions, or the inventory available from various suppliers.
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| In [[computing]], the term ''databank'' is also obsolete (1960s through 1970s) [[computer jargon]] for ''[[database]]'' itself, and is frequently used in that sense in materials written during the same time period.
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Data repository]]
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| * [[List of databases]]
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| * [[Star Wars Databank]]
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| * [[Protein Data Bank]]
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| * [[National Trauma Data Bank]]
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| * [[Memory bank]]
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| * [[International Tree-Ring Data Bank]]
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| * [[Hazardous Substances Data Bank]]
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| * [[Electron microscopy data bank]]
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| * [[Dortmund Data Bank]]
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| * [[Casio Databank]]
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| * [[Conformational dynamics data bank]]
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| * [[Databank Systems]] {{mdash}} a former New Zealand banking agency
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| ==Sources==
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| *{{FS1037C MS188}}
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| *''[[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]], Fourth Edition''. [[Houghton Mifflin]], 2000.
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| ==External links==
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| {{wiktionary}}
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| [[Category:Data management]]
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| [[Category:Information architecture]]
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