www.arrow-net.euARROW Plus is a Best Practice

Network selected under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT

PSP)

DEMO or How does the ARROW system look like from

the user perspective

ARROW in practice

ARROW is a tool to facilitate rights information management in any digitisation project involving text

and image based works.

ARROW infrastructure allows streamlining the process of identification of authors, publishers and other

rightholders of a work, including whether it is orphan, in or out of copyright or if it is still commercially available.

In the next slides, we will take you step by step through the process of the ARROW system

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ARROW in a nutshell

REQUEST

RESPONSE

USERS OF THE ARROW SYSTEM

ARROW SYSTEM

The user submits to the ARROW system a request to digitise a book or a

collection of books

ARROW collects the best available rights information from the different sources connected to the system

The user receives the response to the request based on the information collected and processed

The user submits to the ARROW system a request to digitise a book

or a collection of books

Up to 100 xml records

Submit a Request – MARC 21 XML upload The user uploads a file with the records of the books requested

OR

Submit a Request – Query form The user enters manually the metadata of the book requested

Monitoring the requestsThe user can immediately see and check the status of each requested book

Basic bibliographic information on the book

Country of publicationThe user is asked to validate records matching with the requested book

Matching validation

The user is supported in choosing among multiple alternatives by the matching probability percentage: the higher is the percentage the higher is the similarity of the proposed record to the book requested

The user can see (and choose) matching alternatives and refine the search

Matching alternatives are records of books that correspond or are similar to the book requested by the user, as recorded in the National library catalogue of the country of publication

Monitoring the requests

The request has been fully processed and the final answer is available

The user can see the status of the request according to the different sources interconnected by ARROW and when available the final response

ARROW Response - Results of the request

RRO Response

WORK Status

The user gets a comprehensive overview of the information collected for the request submitted

ARROW Response – Supporting ResourcesThe user can review the different parts of the process

WORK metadata and VIAF integration

The record of the book (manifestation) chosen by the user in the Matching

Validation process

Records of book (manifestations) that correspond or are similar to the book requested, including commercial availability, as recorded in the

Books in Print catalogue of the country of publication

Indicates whether each book is In

commerce or Out of commerce

Similar works related to the book requested

To sum up

ARROW is a comprehensive system for facilitating rights information management in any digitisation programme supporting the diligent search process, scalable to further applications in the new digital markets

ARROW system addresses the issue of Orphan Works but goes beyond it towards a comprehensive Rights Information Infrastructure to

search for information on all categories of books

A work becoming orphaned is essentially an issue of missing or incomplete information

http://www.arrow-net.eu

ARROW Plus is a Best Practice Network selected under the ICT Policy Support

Programme (ICT PSP)

FURTHER INFORMATION

AIE – Associazione Italiana Editori(Project Coordinator)

arrow@aie.itPiero.attanasio@aie.it