Repository

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