1 : a database system with services for storing all types of data objects such as documents, CASE diagrams, and interrelationships between such objects, allowing a user to locate, check out, display, edit, and check in these objects. A repository maintains the consistency of these objects according to user-defined rules during concurrent access and manipulation. [SEMATECH] 2 : a system for storing and accessing information. [SEMATECH] 3 : a data service that provides a mechanism for the consistent and shared use of data among a set of applications. It is an important means by which the applications can be properly integrated. The set of applications will be broadened over time. [SEMATECH] 4 : the database containing the complete set of information including the models describing the system, the processes, and the environments in which it is produced and in which it will operate. Repository data and information is accessible to users through more than one interface and through more than one level of abstraction. [SEMATECH]
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