D-Net: release of the DRIVER Software

The DRIVER D-NET v. 1.0 software is released under the Open Source Apache license with accompanying documentation, and with (limited to capacity) technical support by the DRIVER Consortium technical partners. The infrastructure software is designed to be “open”, which means that new service typologies, exposing functionalities not currently available in DRIVER, can be easily integrated with existing services. DRIVER Consortium policies require that all new DRIVER service software, produced by DRIVER Consortium partners or third-party service providers, should be released under the same Open Source Apache license and included in the DRIVER software package.

In particular, the DRIVER software can be used in the following scenarios:

• Deploying new services on top of an operational DRIVER infrastructure. Running instances of the DRIVER Infrastructure can be enriched at any point in time with new service instances so as to empower or expand the available functionalities.

• Deployment and configuration of customized portals for designated communities over the DRIVER aggregated data (e.g. a portal over national repositories or over subject-driven content, such as RECOLECTA). Deployment of new aggregation services so as to distribute and delegate harvesting and aggregating activities to specialized DRIVER National or Community Correspondents, carrying out their tasks over an assigned selection of repositories.

• Deploying a new DRIVER infrastructure to serve other service providers and communities. The D-NET v. 1.0 software release is also made available to any organization willing to run independent installations of the DRIVER infrastructure. In this case the interested organization would be responsible of the maintenance of such a system.