Providing tools for creating digital libraries in Poland and sharing modern services and new digital content in scientific network PIONIER - construction of infrastructure of digital libraries on this basis in the PIONIER network.

The first digital library based on dLibra software, Digital Library of Wielkopolska (http://www.wbc.poznan.pl) was launched October 1, 2002 through cooperation between the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and Poznań Foundation of Scientific Libraries. This library is currently the largest digital library in Poland. Since that time, dLibra system systematically gained in popularity, becoming the most popular system for building digital libraries in Poland.

dLibra is currently used by hundreds of institutions to build dozens of regional and institutional digital libraries (the current list of implementations is available at http://dlibra.psnc.pl/biblioteki/). In addition to publicly accessible installations dLibra is also used for internal applications (such as management of internal documents of the institutions). All publicly accessible libraries together form a platform of distributed Polish digital libraries in PIONIER network, giving access to hundreds of thousands of digital objects and their metadata and for advanced services based on shared objects, such as distributed searching or the network user profile. Integrating element of the platform has been available since June 2007, the Federation of Digital Libraries (http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/.)

DLibra system allows the storage of digital objects in any format (eg multifiled HTML pages, PDF documents, audio and video recordings, etc) and each of the stored objects can be described using the framework defined by a set of metadata within a certain repository. Stored objects can be made available to readers on the Internet through a dedicated web site repository. DLibra repositories can also cooperate with other online systems using open communication standards, such as the OAI-PMH protocol, or RSS feeds.