Arrow

ARROW, the acronym for Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana, is a project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective management organisations, also representing writers .The challenges of orphan works, out-of-commerce books, clearance of protected material and interoperability between public and private collections could be overcome only through setting up the rights information infrastructure that the ARROW project delivered in early 2011, moving towards a more inclusive digital library.

Following the ARROW project, the European Commission recognized the work performed by the ARROW project consortium by co-financing a new phase for ARROW: the ARROW Plus project.

ARROW is a tool to assist ‘diligent search’ for the rights status and rightsholders of text-based works in an automated, streamlined and standardised way, thus reducing time and costs of the search process.
ARROW helps to connect users with rights information by means of an easy to use system.

http://www.arrow-net.eu/