EnDOW Workshop “Making sense of diligent search”

On the 30^th of June 2016, the EnDOW workshop on the diligent search requirement and crowd-sourcing took place at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) in Amsterdam.

The programme of the workshop is available here.

The working group was composed by the project participants, the members of the advisory board and experts and practitioners of the relevant sector. Overall, 30 participants took part to the workshop.

Three main presentations opened a very useful and enriching discussion focused on the diligent search requirement and the process of crowd-sourcing.

Firstly, Maurizio Borghi briefly summarized how a diligent search must be carried out, stressing the requirements provided by the European Directive on orphan works, their ambiguities and possible interpretation.

Then, Maarten Zeistra focused on the crowdsourcing, trying to figure out how to made this mechanism effective and efficient and providing the group with examples in this sense.

The third presentation has been made by Gyta Berasniviciute of EUIPO which provided the group with an overview on the implementation of the Orphan Works Database, its interface and mode of operation. The working group also made a search simulation through the database.

“Food for thought” has been shared by the group and the project participants had the opportunity to listen to the opinion of experts and workers in the sector of libraries and archives.