The International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL) is a yearly gathering of decision makers in the arena of digital libraries. The 4th International Conference was organized by Professor Raj Reddy from the Computer School of Carnegie Mellon University. The conference took place from 31 October to 2 November in India in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Information Technology.

The D4Science project was presented at the All-Russian Research Conference RCDL 2008, held in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russian Federation, on 7-11 October 2008. During the event, an invited talk entitled "Virtual Research Environments: e-Infrastructures beyond Digital Libraries" was given by Pasquale Pagano (CNR). An in-depth tutorial on gCube system was conducted by George Kakaletris (NKUA), Pasquale Pagano and Pedro Andrade (CERN).