Donatella Castelli is a Senior Researcher working at the “Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council” (ISTI-CNR) since 1988. She has been the principal investigator of several European and National funded projects on digital libraries acquiring considerable experience in this domain. She is currently the scientific coordinator of the D4Science project which has built the homonymous generic infrastructure currently used to serve the needs of scientific communities affiliated with the environmental science discipline. She is also the technical coordinator of the project which has developed and now maintains the DRIVER institutional repository infrastructure.