Maintaining data bank

Synonyms:

Updating information
Managing databases
Offering enlarged data bank
Instituting comprehensive data base
Replacing obsolete information
Providing computerized information bank
Establishing an Internet database
Developing online database
Materializing database management
Servicing databases
Housing databases

Description:

Collecting and holding information in discrete parcels, as entries or records in a manual or computerized database system. A database is essentially a passive source of information. Active analysis requires that instructions be given or sorting tools added.

Broader:

Banking
Maintaining
Sustaining growth
Housing information
Collecting information
Disseminating information

Narrower:

Compiling building data
Collecting data on water
Providing regional data bank
Compiling renewable energy information
Using computerized data banks
Expanding community data network
Providing data base on states of emergency
Organizing information needed for development purposes
Establishing international clearing house for information on waste management and disposal

Facilitates:

Using databases
Creating databases
Exchanging information
Using information data bases

Facilitated by:

Promoting existing databases

Problems:

Ineffective data systems
Obsolete information
Outdated databases
Uncontrolled use of computer data

Values:

Deformation
Information
Obsolescence
Mismanagement
Misinformation
Disinformation

Organizations:

Association of Development Financing Institutions in the Pacific
Arab Gulf States Information Documentation Centre
Committee on Data for Science and Technology
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier
OECD Development Centre
Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre
Research Libraries Group
UNESCO Statistical Data Bank System
Sahelian Scientific and Technological Information and Documentation Network

Subjects:

Information → Information
Information → Data, codes
Amenities → Housing, tenants
Amenities → Maintenance
Transportation, Telecommunications → Internet
Societal Problems → Obsolescence
Management → Management
Informatics, Classification → Informatics
Development → Development
Principles → Values

Type Classification:

C: Cross-sectoral strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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