repository

Information about 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

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

For other uses, see Data (disambiguation).


Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa (or DATA) is a multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Bobby Shriver and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop
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An eprint is a digital version of a research document (usually a journal article, but could also be a thesis, conference paper, book chapter, or a book) that is accessible online, whether from a local Institutional, or a central (subject- or discipline-based) Digital Repository.
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database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system so that a computer program or person using a query language can consult it to answer queries. The records retrieved in answer to queries are information that can be used to make decisions.
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computer file is a block of arbitrary information, or resource for storing information, which is available to a computer program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage.
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Latin}}} 
Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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In linguistics, a participle is a non-finite verb form that can be used in compound tenses or voices, or as a modifier. Participles often share properties with other parts of speech, in particular adjectives and nouns.
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Component repository management is a field of configuration management that seeks to ensure the safe storage of different components of a software product and all its versions. This topic includes product model, revision control, and software configuration management.
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A data warehouse is the main repository of an organization's historical data, its corporate memory. It contains the raw material for management's decision support system. The critical factor leading to the use of a data warehouse is that a data analyst can perform complex queries
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Data mining can be defined as "the nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from data".[1] Data mining may also be defined as "the science of extracting useful information from large data sets or databases".
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A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers [1]. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks.
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An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating -- in digital form -- the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
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In computing, a directory, catalog, or folder[1] is an entity in a file system which contains a group of files and/or other directories. A typical file system may contain thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of directories.
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A national repository is repository for academic publications by scholars working in a particular country is a (Such repositories can also be organized on a more local basis) These can be intended fas the main repository for all such scholarship, or as a supplement to existing
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Revision control (also known as version control (system) (VCS), source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information.
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Summary

The Repository Open Service Interface Definition (OSID) is an O.K.I. specification which defines the storing and retrieving of digital content, referred to as Assets.
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A repository in publishing, and especially in academic publishing, is a real or virtual facility for the deposit of academic publications, such as academic journal articles.

They can be organized in several different manners .
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A software repository (sometimes abbreviated as a repo) is a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer. Many software publishers and other organisations maintain servers on the Internet for this purpose, either free of
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An information repository is an easy to deploy secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured
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