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This kind of descent is described in the article stack using the bar construction to write a sieve as a colimit of representables.
Let be a site, a fibration, , a cover of . the full subcategory of arrows, that factor through some of the cover; the corresponding functor is then a sieve. The category of descent data (sometimes shortcut to descent category) of along is defined to be the functor category .
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