The Expert Forum forms part of DCU's work within the conceptual workpackage of DARIAH (WP8), based on a combination of scholarly information behaviour literature survey with qualitative research on how arts and humanities researchers interact with information. It contributes to the development of a process model of scholarly information work, and also feed into the specification of an object model for information resources and scholarly objects pertinent to humanities research, an important factor in determining digital infrastructure requirements for scholarship.

"DCC&U: An Extended Digital Curation Lifecycle Model" has been published at the "International Journal of Digital Curation".

MOPSEUS, a FEDORA based Digital Library service launches.

"Using Handhelds to Search in Physical and Digital Information Spaces" has been awarded with the best paper award at the UBICOMM 2008 conference.

DCU implemented the greek internationalization of the JeromeDL e-Library with Semantics interface.