About the Virtual Collection Registry

The Virtual Collection Registry (VCR) was developed for CLARIN at The Institute for the German Language (IDS) and the CLARIN ERIC .

The VCR was developed by:

• Oliver Schonefeld (IDS)
• Twan Goosen (CLARIN ERIC)
• Willem Elbers (CLARIN ERIC)

Persistent identifiers for the VCR are issued by GWDG using the EPIC API version 2.

Licenses

The VCR is made available under the GPL 3.0 license.
Source code and documentation is published on GitHub.

It uses the following software components:

• Apache Wicket (Apache License 2.0)
• Jersey (CCDL 1.1)
• Spring Framework (Apache License 2.0)
• Bootstrap (MIT license)
• jQuery (MIT license)
• WiQuery (MIT license)
• GLYPHICONS free (CC-BY 3.0)

Funding

Development of the VCR has been made possible in part through funding received from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through:

• CLARIN-PLUS under grant agreement No 676529
• EOSC-hub under grant agreement No 777536
• SSHOC under grant agreement No 823782