Main Description |
The Asset Repository includes the Reusable Assets to which the asset consumer has access. It may
include asset catalogs and repositories (hosted by the organization or a third party on the Internet), as well as
internal repositories (on the user's local hard disk, a project's local network, and/or an organization's Intranet).
Such a definition of the Asset Repository is essential because it offers much greater flexibility to the asset
consumer, and it supports a wider ecosystem for asset creation, management, and application.
The Asset Repository represents the context in which Reusable Assets are published. Describing it as a composite
artifact is really an optimization from a process description point of view, which provides a way to describe where
assets are published, and what assets are searched for, generically, without having to repeatedly say that the "reuse
library" could be a company-wide repository, a project-wide repository, a third-party repository, etc.
The Asset Repository supports different kinds of context-dependent searches, navigation, and retrieval of assets
(or parts of assets).
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