Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath, and Dr Simon Coles, University of Southampton, gave a presentation at the first summit of the DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) Project held in Goettingen, Germany over 16-17 January 2008 with the theme “Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories”. The presentation, entitled “eCrystals Federation: Open Repositories for global Open Science” is now available.