ARROW system towards the prototype

In Paris, hosted by the French National Library (BNF), two days of work were organized to define in details activities for the launch of ARROW prototype. On October 5th, project partners met with representatives of stakeholders from national libraries, BooksInPrint, RROs active in the five countries (Germany, France, UK, Spain, Norway) that will be involved in the pilot phase of the system.

On October 6th a restricted working group of experts and WP leaders met on the same premises to continue the work focusing on metadata standards and messaging formats to be used in ARROW to allow interoperability among different database of organisations involved.

Technical discussions and contacts continued on occasion of Frankfurt book fair that was venue for some meetings coordinated by AIE both with organizations already involved in the set up of the technological infrastructure (Germany, France, UK, Norway, and The Netherlands) and new players interest to contribute to the enlargement of ARROW network in Europe (Sweden).

ARROW Plus is a Best Practice Network selected under the Competitiveness and innovation framework programme