TALARIA is a new open-source resource-sharing management software, which has been developed under the frame of the European project HERMES Strengthening Digital Resource Sharing during COVID and beyond (Output 2). The Talaria of Mercury (Latin: talaria or The Winged Sandals of Hermes Ancient Greek: πτενοπεδιλος, ptenop´edilos or πτερόεντα πέδιλα pter´oenta p´edila) are winged sandals, a symbol of the Greek messenger god Hermes. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria

HERMES was conceived to reinforce the RSCVD (Resource Sharing during COVID-19) initiative of the IFLA Document Delivery & Resource Sharing Section. RSCVD is based on the voluntary contribution of a hundred librarians around the world, who worked with the tools available at that moment in order to share documents held in their libraries with the world academic community. It was the first experiment in free digital resource sharing worldwide.

HERMES project aim is to develop a new resource sharing management software suitable to support the RSCVD initiative, as well as any other resource sharing library communities in the world and to bridge the gap among existing resource sharing communities and consortia in the world. During the design and development process, the exchange with RSCVD volunteers and librarians has been very important: they have been involved in testing the software to collect feedback, make improvements, detect and correct bugs in order to build reliable, user-oriented software.