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Repository

Repositories preserve, manage, and provide access to many types of digital materials in a variety of formats.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 19 May 2026

Editorial commentary

Materials in online repositories are curated to enable search, discovery, and reuse. There must be sufficient control for the digital material to be authentic, reliable, accessible and usable on a continuing basis.

Machine-readable encodings

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JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Repository"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/repository" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "Repository",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/repository/",
  "description": "Repositories preserve, manage, and provide access to many types of digital materials in a variety of formats.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-data-infrastructure/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/repository/",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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