Concept information
Preferred term
digital repository
Definition
- A digital repository is a type of service that enables the deposition and preservation of digital resources, in a variety of formats, and optionally their presentation. Digital repositories should both facilitate the activities of a community and respond to its needs and should offer durable and permanent solutions to preservation while making their content accessible. Resources in a repository should have descriptive metadata attached to them and be searchable as well as directly accessible via download links.
Entry terms
- digital repositories
- repo
Source
- Gibbons, Susan. 2009. “Chapter 2: Defining an Institutional Repository.” Library Technology Reports 40 (4): 6–10. https://journals.ala.org/index.php/ltr/article/view/4378
Example
- The mappaopendata project from the University of Pisa, http://mappaproject.arch.unipi.it/mod/Index.php.
In other languages
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Italian
URI
http://purl.org/knot/taxonomy/digital_repository
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