The European Projects
eContent plus programme
• ARROW Project - www.arrow-net.eu
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 (FEP is one of the partners) and collective management organisations, also representing writers – working through their main European associations and a number of national organisations – which has been launched in November 2008 and will last for 30 months."
ARROW is one of the projects selected among 102 ones presented in 2007 at the European Commissions eContentplus Programme which seeks to help make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.
ARROW aims in particular to support the EC's i2010 Digital Library Project by finding ways to clarify the rights status of orphan and out of print works, so they can be cleared for digitisation and inclusion in the Digital Library. The project also seeks to enhance the interoperability of rights information (i.e. exchange of information) between rightholders, agents, libraries and users. Solutions envisaged by the venture include the establishment of systems for the exchange of rights data, the creation of a registry of orphan works and a network of rights clearance centres. Key to achieving this objective is interoperability, standards deployment and stakeholder involvement.
elearning programmes
• PRO-ACCESS Project - http://proaccess.euain.org/
The aim of this project is to find pragmatic solutions to provide educational content in the elearning value chain accessible to visually impaired people. The project will disseminate the best practices and guidelines stemming from the results of two EU funded projects: ORMEE and EU AIN (see below). These materials are intended for both the content producer market and for educational and training environments.
In particular the project will increase the possibility for visually impaired people involved in any educational process – whether pure eLearning or blended learning – to access course material on a timely basis, especially as digital files that can easily be used with PC and special devices.
- Other partners:
Italian Publishers Association (AIE)
Dutch Library for the blind (DEDICON)
- Events:
18th January 2008 : Content production processes towards accessibility
Programme
Agenda
19th/20th September 2007 First Accessible Content ProcessingConference
Programme
24th May 2007 First expert meeting group
Programme
• EU AIN Network - www.euain.org
Given the widespread adoption of ICT within the publishing industries, there is a general interest in the creation and provision of well-formatted digital documents.
For those people who are dependent on accessible information, this interest is of central importance, and it is this convergence of interests that offers exciting opportunities for these different stakeholders. There is a strong demand from visually impaired persons to create material directly accessible.
EU AIN provides support, tools and expertise to enable them to provide accessible information.
One tool developed by the EU AIN Network is the Demonstrator.
This Demonstrator has been set up in order to illustrate the potential of accessible publishing whose concepts are underpining the EUAIN project. The Demonstrator can be used for producing different output formats on-demand, from the same well-structured input file.
Try the demonstrator at: http://demonstrator.eu/ain.org
- Other partners:
Dutch Library for the blind (DEDICON)
ONCE
Association BrailleNet
Dolphin Audio Publishing
TZI, Universität Bremen
IACS, University Linz
Silesian University of Technology
Royal National Institute of the Blind
Force Foundation
• OrmeE
Getting to know eLearning in Europe: the Observatory on Rights Management for eLearning takes the rise in order to give a picture of the European situation on copyright issues. OrmeE helps to understand and evaluate how the EU Copyright Directive has been implemented in different European Member States, to suggest the best available applications in the eLearning environment, to identify the best technology and legal options and the existing services in Europe applied to rights management systems for eLearning objects.
- Other Partners:
Italian Publishers Association (AIE)
BolognaFiere
Technical University Berlin (TUB)
- Events:
24th November 2005 - Final OrmeE conference - Programme
- Working documents:
OrmeE Studies :
- Introduction to Work Package 2 ENG FR DE
- Best practices in dealing with Learning Objects ENG IT
- DRM solutions addressed to e-Learning environment ENG FR DE IT
- European Best Practices in Public Private Partnership in eLearning ENG FR IT
Culture Programme
• Cooperation agreement in the field of books and reading (MCA) Link
Description of the book industry, detection of the problems and objectives of the bodies active in the European book sector and conclusions on the potential actions.
A study on the situation of the book market has been published. The primary objectives of the study was to identify the needs of the book sector in key fields and to identify the priority measures and actions to be taken by member states, the European Union and private industry to improve the current conditions and maximize the potential of the sector.
PDF Study
- Other Partners:
National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI)
Ministry of Culture of Spain
Italian Publishers Assocation (AIE)
European Booksellers Federation (EBF)
European Writers Congress (EWC)
- Events:
30th June/1st July 2007: European Conference 'the book in the 21st Century' - Programme
6/7 April 2006: European Conference 'Readmagine' - Programme
30/31 May 2005: Pan-european conference on books - Programme
- Resolutions:
• Get caught reading – Europe
It is the first European campaign “Get Caught Reading-Europe” which promotes books and reading through various media and by a well-focused communication strategy.The initiative focused on the fun-side of reading: personalities from the worlds of the media, sport, politics, etc. were photographed “caught reading”.
- Other Partner:
Italian Publishers Assocation (AIE)
- Events
From 21st to 25th November 2005: Photo exhibition in the European Parliament Pictures
21st September 2004: FEP Parliamentary Evening in Brussels Pictures
Possibility to order poster of the campaign, please contact: info@fep-fee.eu
