Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Git repository on GitHub for an open-source research software project.
- Is an instance
A self-hosted GitLab repository at a research institute for internal scientific code.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A zip file of source code on a personal webpage is not a code repository in the version-control sense.
- Not an instance
A data-only repository with no source code is not a code repository.
Editorial commentary
Code repositories are the canonical home of research software during development. Platforms include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, and self-hosted Git instances; mercurial and SVN platforms persist in some communities. Within research-information ecosystems, code repositories are distinct from but linked to data repositories: a code repository may be referenced from a dataset’s DataCite metadata via a ‘IsSupplementedBy’ relationship, or vice versa. For citation and long-term archival, releases from code repositories are typically deposited in Zenodo (with a DOI) or in Software Heritage.
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Also known as
Source code repository · Code repo
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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