REPOSITORY

A 'repository' is a place where data is stored and maintained. A repository can be

★ a place where data is stored

★ a place where specifically digital data is stored

★ a site where eprints are located

★ a place where multiple databases or files are located for distribution over a network,

★ a computer location that is directly accessible to the user without having to travel across a network.

★ a place where anything is stored for probable reuse

★ a place to store digital data

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Etymology

See also

Etymology

From Latin ''repositorium,'' place or thing for storage; from ''reposit-'' (pp. of ''reponere'', to store, put away) + ''-torium,'', suffix indicating a place or thing appropriate for the verb to which it is affixed.

See also

★ Component repository management

★ Data warehouse

★ Data mining

★ Digital repository

★ Institutional repository

★ Directory

★ National repository

★ Revision control

★ Repository OSID

★ Repository (academic publishing)

★ Software repository