The domain of the IDS repository is the German language, mainly in its current form (contemporary New High German). Its designated community are national and international researchers in German and general linguistics. As an institutional repository, the repository provides long term archival of two important IDS projects: the Deutsches Referenzkorpus (āGerman Reference Corpusā, DeReKo), which curates a large corpus of written German language, and the Archiv fĆ¼r Gesprochenes Deutsch (āArchive of Spoken Germanā, AGD), which curates several corpora of spoken German.
In addition, the repository enables germanistic researchers from IDS and from other research facilities and universities to deposit their research data for long term archival of data and metadata arising from research projects.