It was involved in a range of national and international projects including the DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries , the Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education (DESIRE) , the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER, a precursor to OpenAIRE) , the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative , the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) Grand Challenge Project , and the development of the SWORD interoperability standard and the Bath Profile of the Z39.50 standard.