02.08.2010
06.05.2010
Photo: Veraliah Bueno
ARROW pilot countries meeting
On May 4, domain representatives (Libraries, Reproduction Rights Organisations and Books in Print databases) from the 4 pilot countries of the ARROW project held a meeting in Innsbruck. The project coordination highlighted a number of achievements since the release of the Alpha version.
Representatives from Germany, United Kingdom, Spain and France presented their country status with regards to the ARROW system development and recognised the project as a key solution for the orphan and out of print works. Slovenia was also represented by the National and University Library, which expressed their interest to follow closely the project.
ARROW is, in the opinion of the involved countries, an alternative to an expensive diligent search that national libraries are facing as part of massive digitisation projects.
The RROs that attended the meeting expect to assist creators and publishers in administering rights by issuing collective licences for the referenced type of works and by being administrators of orphan works.
Finally, all the meeting attendees agreed on the need to demonstrate also to others how ARROW will ease the finding of works status by being an easy to use tool.
