DRIVER e-Infrastructure

The DRIVER Infrastructure is a Service Oriented e-Infrastructure providing an environment where different organizations can find the tools to aggregate heterogeneous OAI-PMH compliant Institutional Repositories into uniform shared Information Spaces and also build and customize their Digital Library applications to operate over such Spaces. Nowadays, the information space operated by DRIVER counts around 700,000 records out of 150 repositories across 21 countries, and the number of candidate registering repositories is still growing.The infrastructure builds a Service-oriented environment, where distributed resources are implemented as standard Web Services.