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A digital repository is for managing, storing and providing access to digital content. Repository software provides the infrastructure to handle digital objects to support research, learning, teaching or administrative processes. The type of digital content is variable as well as the purposes or users. With the type of usage, users and content of an institutional repository differs the requested specification on a repository software.
One of the main advantages of a repository is the description of the digital object by variables described in associated metadata. This allows the searching of the repository content like for instance in a library system.
Through an implemented appropriate metadata exposure method can a repository be harvested by external services and the content be found by a wider range of people. Metadata can be exchange by protocols like the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), RSS or other.[1]
A range of repository software can be found in the CARPET Catalogue
(http://www.carpet-project.net/en/catalogue/).
Links
Databib (http://databib.org/index.php) - Collaborative database for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data.
Re3Data (http://www.re3data.org/)- Global registry of research data repositories
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