Electronic clearance of orphan works via the ARROW system significantly accelerates mass digitisation, according to the BL. It would take one person 1000 years to clear 500,000 works (books?), however, with ARROW, it can takle 5 minutes per item.
The
BL study can be downloaded here, or for a quick overview, the highlights are included in their
press summary here
The British Library, as part of the wider EU funded ARROW (Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works) project[1], has today published a study into rights clearance and mass digitisation which examines the issue of orphan works - works for which the rights holder is untraceable.
'Seeking New Landscapes: A rights clearance study in the context of mass digitisation of 140 books published between 1870 and 2010’ found that more efficient ways of clearing rights and providing cultural institutions with legal certainty over their activities are needed to ensure that h
The British Library, as part of the wider EU funded ARROW (Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works) project[1], has today published a study into rights clearance and mass digitisation which examines the issue of orphan works - works for which the rights holder is untraceable.
'Seeking New Landscapes: A rights clearance study in the context of mass digitisation of 140 books published between 1870 and 2010’ found that more efficient ways of clearing rights and providing cultural institutions with legal certainty over their activities are needed to ensure that highly valuable research materials don’t remain out of reach of the vast majority of citizen
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