Definitions for "Digital repository"
An online, searchable, web-accessible database containing works of research deposited by scholars. Purpose is both increased access to scholarship and long-term preservation. Digital repositories are often built to serve a specific institution's community of users, in which cases they are called institutional repositories. There are also discipline-specific digital repositories, like arXiv.org. Most digital repositories may be searched together via OAIster.
a core element for the handling of both access to and preservation of the digital objects
an institution, like a library or a public records office, which preserves digital objects
a managed collection of digital material that is available for access by humans and machines