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- Repositori
- Repozitář
- Repository
- Repositorio
- Dépôt_(informatique)
- Repository
- リポジトリ
- Repozytorium
- Repositório
- Репозиторий
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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.
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See also
Look up repository in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Component repository management
- Computer data storage
- Data mining
- Data proliferation
- Data warehouse
- Digital repository
- Directory
- Information repository
- Institutional repository
- National repository
- PowerDesigner
- Repository (academic publishing)
- Repository OSID
- Revision control
- Serum repository
- Software repository (often abbreviated to repo in this area)
