Repository

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A repository is a place where data or specimens are stored and maintained for future retrieval. A repository can be

• a place where data are stored
• a place where specifically digital data are 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 to store specimens, including serum or other biological fractions
• a place where anything is stored for probable reuse

Etymology

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

See also

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• Component repository management
• Computer data storage
• Data mining
• Data proliferation
• Data warehouse
• Digital repository
• Directory (file systems)
• Information repository
• Institutional repository
• National repository
• PowerDesigner
• Repository (publishing)
• Repository OSID
• Revision control
• Serum repository
• Software repository (often abbreviated to repo in this area)

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