Repository commonly refers to a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
Repository may also refer to:
- Repository (version control), a concept from distributed revision control that refers to a data structure
- Repository clone, concept from distributed revision control
- Repository (publishing), real or virtual facility for the deposit of academic publications such as academic journal articles
- Repository Open Service Interface Definition, O.K.I. specification which defines the storing and retrieving of digital content
- The Repository, daily newspaper serving the greater Canton, Ohio area
- Component repository management, field of configuration management
- Deep geological repository for radioactive waste
- Information repository, developed to mitigate problems arising from data proliferation
- Institutional repository, universities create digital collections of an institution's scholarly research
- National repository, repository for academic publications
- National Mine Map Repository, U.S. government-run facility assuming the responsibility of storing information extracted from mining maps, including pictures of the actual maps
- Serum repository, facility which stores frozen serum for future retrieval and study
- Software repository, storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer
- Digital repository, also known as a virtual or digital library
- Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics, British periodical published 1809-1829, commonly called Ackermann's Repository
Famous quotes containing the word repository:
“I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a Kingmy republican feelings and principles forbid itthe simplicity of our system of government forbids it.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
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