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+# type	id	name	description	condition	permissions
+
+virtualcollection	WPD15-VC	Wikipedia	Deutsche Wikipedia 2015	public	read
+corpus	WPD15	Wikipedia	Deutsche Wikipedia 2015	public	read
+corpus	GOE	Goethe	Goethe corpus	public	read
+foundry	base	Base	base foundry	public	read
+foundry	dereko	Dereko	dereko foundry	public	read
+foundry	corenlp	CoreNLP	CoreNLP parser	public	read
+foundry	opennlp	OpenNLP	OpenNLP parser	public	read
+foundry	malt	MALT	MALT parser	public	read
+foundry	mdp	mdp	MD Parser	public	read
+foundry	tt	Tree Tagger	Tree Tagger parser	public	read
+layer	s	sentence	sentence	public	read
+layer	c	constituent	constituent	public	read
+layer	d	dependency	dependency	public	read
+layer	p	pos	part of speech	public	read
+layer	l	lemma	lemma	public	read