Repository

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A repository is a place where data are stored and maintained. A repository can be

a place where data are stored
a place where specifically digital data are 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

[edit] 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.