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{{About|the discipline}}
{{distinguish|Library science|Information technology}}
'''Informatics''' (a combination of the words "information" and "automatic") is the study of computational systems.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=What is Informatics? University of Edinburgh|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/what20is20informatics.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=INFORMATICS {{!}} Bedeutung im Cambridge Englisch Wörterbuch|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/informatics|website=dictionary.cambridge.org|language=de}}</ref> According to the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Europe Council and [[Informatics Europe]], informatics is synonymous with [[computer science]] and [[computing]] as a profession,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Are We All In The Same Boat? ACM & Informatics Europe|url=https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/cecereport.pdf}}</ref> in which the central notion is [[Data processing|transformation of information]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Informatics? - Definition from Techopedia|url=http://www.techopedia.com/definition/30332/informatics|website=Techopedia.com|date=October 2014 |language=en}}</ref> In some cases, the term "informatics" may also be used with different meanings, e.g. in the context of [[social computing]],<ref name=":4" /> or in context of [[library science]].<ref name="Wellisch 157–187">{{Cite journal|last=Wellisch|first=Hans|date=1972-07-01|title=From Information Science to Informatics: a terminological investigation|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/096100067200400302|journal=Journal of Librarianship|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=157–187|doi=10.1177/096100067200400302|s2cid=62708018|issn=0022-2232}}</ref>
== Different meanings ==
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