Repository
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A repository can be:
- Repository clone, a concept from distributed revision control
- Component repository management, a field of configuration management
- Digital repository, also known as an electronic library or virtual library
- Information repository, developed to mitigate problems arising from data proliferation
- Institutional repository, universities create digital collections of an institution's scholarly research
- National repository, a repository for academic publications
- Serum repository, a facility which stores frozen serum for future retrieval and study
- Software repository, a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer
- Repository (publishing), a real or virtual facility for the deposit of academic publications such as academic journal articles
- Repository OSID, an O.K.I. specification which defines the storing and retrieving of digital content
- Mine Map Repository, government-run facility assuming the responsibility of storing information extracted from mining maps, including pictures of the actual maps.
[edit] Etymology
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From Latin repositorium, place or thing for storages; 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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