Author
EnDOW Project
Description
The EnDOW Diligent Search Tool is a web-based form that guides users through the process of conducting a diligent search, which allows them to determine whether a creative work meets the definition of an orphan work.
The online form can be used by cultural heritage professionals, users or volunteers, or by anyone who needs to determine the copyright status of a work. The nature of the tool also means that it can be used to crowdsource the diligent search process, which previous research has shown can be laborious and expensive.
The online form can be used by cultural heritage professionals, users or volunteers, or by anyone who needs to determine the copyright status of a work. The nature of the tool also means that it can be used to crowdsource the diligent search process, which previous research has shown can be laborious and expensive.
Date
2017 June 23
Abstract
The abstract provided by the author(s) of this work is as follows:
The main goal of EnDOW is to facilitate the process of right clearance for European cultural institutions engaged in digitization of material contained in their collections. Specifically, EnDOW aims at designing, implementing and testing an efficient and cost-effective system for determining the “orphan work” status of library, archive and museum material, according to the requirements of the recently implemented European Directive on orphan works. The system will be based on crowd-sourcing certain phases of the process of diligent search of the rightholders, which is key requirement set by the Directive to benefit from the orphan works exception.
Key objectives of EnDOW are:
Key objectives of EnDOW are:
- To analyse the legal requirement of “diligent search” across the orphan works legislation of a selected number of EU Member States;
- To investigate best practices of orphan works clearance across cultural heritage sectors (libraries, archives and museums);
- (Based on this knowledge:) to design, implement and optimize an online platform for crowd-sourced diligent searching on works contained in the collections of European cultural institutions;
- To study the potential applications and challenges of the crowd-based search method for texts, images, films, works of visual art and born-digital cultural heritage works.
Publisher
EnDOW Project
Institution
CIPPM Bournemouth University, CREATe University of Glasgow, IViR University of Amsterdam, ASK Bocconi University Milan
Jurisdiction
European Union, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy
Language
ENG, NDL
Copyright Information
In Copyright
Rights and Reuse
GNU GPL V3 license
Cortex Citation:
EnDOW Project, “EnDOW Diligent Search Tool,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/endow-diligent-search-tool.
EnDOW Project, “EnDOW Diligent Search Tool,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/endow-diligent-search-tool.