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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 Eprint s are located

  • a place where multiple Database s or File s 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.

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