Arrow Project newsletter

The January/February 2012 issue of the Magazine of Digital Library Research Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) features an article on ARROW written by CINECA and MEDRA staff. The article aims at explaining the ARROW system and its background. The complete article can be read here: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january12/caroli/01caroli.html.

The Federation of European Publishers (FEP), a member of the Europeana Network, has started a new discussion group on ARROW within its network of content providers and aggregators, of which IFRRO is also a member. ARROW was presented to the European Network at its General Assembly in 2011. A discussion group has been started aiming at clustering projects that are linked to Europeana and have work packages dealing with search for the rightholders. The discussion group is on the Europeana Network Linkedin website.

The first white paper, published on 19 December 2011, titled Orphan Works: Definitional Issues, addresses the issue of Orphan Works by considering four different approaches to provide the basic theorethical framework for any further discussion of possible practical solutions.

The digitisation project includes 1700 books published between 1850 and 1990 from 53 different countries and since the majority of the titles are in copyright and often out of print, identifying and tracing rightholders to seek permission to use this content, the ARROW system will be used with the aim of assisting in such task.

The first official release of
ONIX for Rights Information Services (ONIX-RS) – the development of which has drawn heavily upon the work of the EC-funded
ARROW Project and the inputs of ARROW partner organizations – has been published on the EDItEUR website as an official standard of the ONIX family.

As of yesterday, the ARROW website (www.arrow-net.eu) has been revamped and new information has been added. Please feel free to explore it, promote it among your networks and also to provide us with your feedback on the new structure.

We would appreciate your assistance in dissemination of the new ARROW website by possibly creating a link from your own websites.

Over 5,000 users completed the survey, a much higher response rate than the equivalent in 2009. Respondents are as old as they were in 2009 - 60% are over 45. However, 15% of them are teachers and lecturers, who Europeana relies on to recommend Europeana to their students. As in 2009, by far the most popular new function and feature that could be added to Europeana is the ability for the user to download content. In particular, the downloading of images, text, videos and sounds is requested. Over 90% of respondents agree that this would be “useful” or “very useful”.

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