RepositoriumsURLs

RepositoriumsURLs is a term used to describe a curated collection of Uniform Resource Locators that identify the source code repositories, data repositories, and artifact repositories associated with a project. The word combines repositorium, a Latin-like form for repository, with URLs, emphasizing that each entry points to a location on the web where the project's contents are stored or managed. While not a formal standard, the concept is used in documentation, metadata schemas, and tooling to reference sources of truth for software and data.

Entries typically include the repository hosting service (for example GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), the repository path, and an access protocol (https, ssh). They may point to various components such as the main code repository, a fork, a mirror, release assets, container images, or data sets. Versioning information may be included as branches, tags, or specific revisions to support reproducibility.

In practice, RepositoriumsURLs appear in manifest files, SBOMs, project documentation, and provenance records. They are connected with metadata fields like repository type, owner, project name, default branch, license, and last updated. Maintaining accurate URLs helps with reproducibility, dependency tracing, and auditability.

Common use cases include dependency resolution in package managers, reproducible research pipelines, software bill of materials, and archival citation. They enable automated retrieval of sources and artifacts and can be validated through checksums or signatures.

Example: A project might list several URLs such as https://github.com/org/project.git for the main code, [email protected]:org/project.git as SSH access, and https://gitlab.com/org/project-data for datasets, along with corresponding tags or commits like refs/tags/v1.2.3.