Are “Central Digital Repository”, “The Repository”, “Repo”, “Cenrepo”, “Fedora” all the same thing?
Yes and no. All of the above terms basically refer to the same thing: a digital library management and delivery system that can serve a research library with broad, comprehensive electronic collections. “The Repository”, “Repo”, and “Cenrepo” are all shorthand terms that we have used locally at UVa. Our Repository will contain texts, images, and data from Library collections, and faculty projects. The resources are available for discovery and use and new uses of the collections can also be collected back into the repository. Fedora is the particular open-source digital object repository management system built by UVa and Cornell that is powering our Central Digital Repository.
