eSciDoc is as a shared project of the Max Planck Society and Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF),with the aim of realising a platform for communication and publication in scientific research organisations. The aims of the eSciDoc project are: to ensure permanent access to the research results and materials of the Max-Planck Society; to provide effective opportunities for access to information for scientists of the Max-Planck Society and their work groups; to support scientific collaboration in e-Science scenarios; to support seamless integration within the emerging, global, digital knowledge space.

DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/): An EU-funded project to provide a coordinated infrastructure to support the preservation of cultural heritage in Europe and to provide access to research material from the humanities.

CASPAR (http://www.casparpreserves.eu/): An EU-funded community addressing the log-term curation of and sustainability of access to cultural, artistic and scientific digital information.

Nestor (http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng): a German network of expertise in the long-term preservation and availability of digital material, comprising a number of libraries, archives and museums as well as other leading experts. A goal of the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, is the constitution of a permanent preservation organisation and the development of national and international agreements. In particular, it includes a working group covering D-Grid activities and digital preservation.

e-SciDR (http://www.e-scidr.eu/): a study led by the Digital Archiving Consultancy on behalf of the European Commission to drive forward the development and use of digital repositories in the EU in all areas of e-Science. The study involved a public consultation and workshop involving international experts in related fields.
DRIVER and DRIVER 2 (http://www.driver-repository.eu/): An international partnership to build a large-scale public repository infrastructure for research information across Europe, to enable researchers to plug into the new knowledge base and to use scientific content in a standardised, open way. The project is funded by the European Commission

DILIGENT (http://www.diligentproject.org/): An EU-funded project creating an advanced test-bed to support virtual e-Science communities in knowledge sharing and collaboration.

JISC networks addressing digital repository issues, including: the Repositories Support Project (http://www.rsp.ac.uk/), the e-Framework (http://www.e-framework.org/), the Repositories Research Team (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Repositories_Research), the Common Repository Interfaces Working Group (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/CRIG).

Fedora Commons (http://www.fedora-commons.org/) sustains a wide and diverse community of relevance to the Network’s aims. This wider community includes both a community of practice, including scholars, artists, educators, publishers, scientists, librarians, archivists, publishers, and others who want to manage and use digital material in innovative ways, and a software development community working on innovative, open source software and tools to enable digital repository technologies to support this community of practice.

The DSpace Foundation provides support and advocacy for the DSpace digital repository platform and community, and supports the development of the platform by providing leadership and funding. It facilitates collaboration, communication and awareness and develops partnerships with other related projects.