The first outcomes of EnDOW project were presented and discussed at the 4th Europeana Licensing workshop in Luxembourg on the 26th and 27th November 2015. The workshop was organised by the Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, Kennisland (Amsterdam) and the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam.
The discussion focused on the “diligent search” requirement of the Orphan Works Directive. A mayor issue arises in respect to accessibility of sources: according to our survey, 69% of the compulsory sources are freely accessibile online in the UK, but the value drops to 41% in the Netherlands and 24% in Italy. This means that performing a diligent search on works contained in library collections is overly complicated in these countries. See the presentations for more details:
- Crowdsourcing diligent search: a solution for the orphan works problem? (Maurizio Borghi) >> download here
- The accessibility of the sources for diligent search (Marcella Favale) >> download here
