The main objective of DILIGENT has been to create an advanced testbed
for knowledge e-Infrastructure that will enable members of dynamic
virtual e-Science organisations to access shared knowledge and to
collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.
This e-Infrastructure has been built by integrating grid and digital
library technology. The merging of these two forms of technology has
opened the way to a new generation of e-Science knowledge
e-Infrastructures able to provide powerful environments for research
and industrial applications.
DILIGENT is funded in part by the European Commission's Sixth
Framework Programme. DILIGENT officially began on 1 September 2004 and
came to its completion on 30 November 2007.
The experience gained, and the middleware developed, during the
DILIGENT project will be carried into the follow-up project "DILIGENT
for Science". D4Science aims to
continue the path that the GEANT, EGEE and DILIGENT projects have
initiated towards establishing networking, grid-based and data-centric
e-Infrastructures.
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