Sustainable digital library systems over the DRIVER repository infrastructure

The DRIVER Infrastructure is an e-infrastructure providing an environment where organizations find the tools to aggregate heterogeneous content sources into uniform shared Information Spaces and then build and customize their Digital Library Systems to operate over them. In this paper, we shall show the benefits for organizations embracing the infrastructural approach by presenting the DRIVER infrastructure, its current status of maintenance, its participating organizations, and the first two systems built on top of its Information Space.