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Digital projects represent a tough challenge for today's cash-strapped libraries in Italy. But they also represent an opportunity to review policies and use resources more efficiently. The main vehicle is setting up cooperative programmes. In turn this should leverage on territorial or disciplinary propinquities. The article reports on one such cooperative project currently under way in Piemonte (Italy). After introducing the experiment by way of a short discussion of pros-and-cons of cooperation/networks, the focus turns on the technical platform. The description summarizes the various components and their function within the repository architecture. The project is fully OAI-PMH compliant and all the software layers are open-source allowing for smooth data harvesting.
