Repository

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 were 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

Etymology

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.