Use Cases for the Virtual Collection Registry in SSHOC

This document provides concise information on the Virtual Collection Registry (VCR), particularly with regard to the use cases and its extensions and improvements planned and created during the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud project (SSHOC). 

Note that this document is largely a summary from a larger document that holds the common wisdom of the SSHOC Task 3.6 partners with regard to the VCR goals. It serves as documentation and proof-of-work for Task 3.6 from 2020 to 2022 and may inform future discussion on service integrations revolving around the VCR.

In SSHOC task 3.6 the main working goal is to generalise the VCR for use by the SSH community at large and ideally implement a number of SSH use cases with potential to grow e.g. to be taken up by other data-catalogues and services. This acknowledges the language-/ linguistics-related focus of the VCR so far (as a CLARIN service). SSHOC serves as a suitable framework for extending the VCRs use case from language/linguistics to other research areas.