Enhancing access to 20th Century cultural heritage through Distributed Orphan Works clearance (EnDOW)

用简单的语言描述拟议的研究，以一种可以向普通观众宣传的方式[最多4000字符]。请注意，如果授予赠款，这份摘要可能会公布在AHRC的网站上。由于版权和相关权利的实际存在或潜在存在，20世纪文化遗产的数字化受到严格限制。根据欧洲关于孤儿作品的新法律，大量版权地位不确定的文化遗产可能会被文化机构合法数字化，条件是已经对权利人进行了“勤奋的搜索”。虽然这些勤奋的搜索为机构用户带来了令人望而却步的高昂成本，但该项目设计了一个具有成本效益的非集中化系统，使欧洲各地的文化机构能够从最终用户那里获取信息，并确定其收藏作品的版权状态。最终，该项目将使人们能够更好地利用20世纪的文化遗产，并将有助于利用和再利用原本鲜为人知、肯定未被开发的物品。捐赠基金的主要目标是：？分析遗产加15个成员国孤儿作品立法中“勤奋搜寻”的法律要求？调查文化遗产部门(图书馆、档案馆和博物馆)清理孤儿作品的最佳做法；？(基于这一知识：)设计、实施和优化一个在线平台，对欧洲文化机构收藏的作品进行众包勤奋搜索；？研究图像、电影和原生数字文化遗产作品基于人群的搜索方法的潜在应用和挑战。通过大规模数字化的分析和经验方法，该项目将促进包括中小型机构在内的文化遗产利益攸关方之间的知识交流。它将产生一个高价值的工具，以最大限度地实现对最近的文化遗产的可持续管理以及对相关文化文物的使用和再利用。

Describe the proposed research in simple terms in a way that could be publicised to a general audience [up to 4000 chars]. Note that this summary may be published on the AHRC's website in the event that a grant is awarded.Digitization of 20th Century cultural heritage is severely restricted due to the real or potential subsistence of copyright and related rights. Under the new European laws on orphan works, a large amount of cultural heritage whose copyright status is uncertain could possibly be lawfully digitized by cultural institutions on condition that a "diligent search" of the rightholders has been performed. While these diligent searches trigger prohibitively high costs for institutional users, the project designs a cost effective de-centralized system that enables cultural institutions across Europe to source information from end-users and determine the copyright status of works contained in their collections. Ultimately, the project will allow for an enhanced access to 20th Century cultural heritage and will contribute to enable use and re-use of items that would otherwise remain scarcely known and certainly unexploited.Key objectives of EnDOW are:? To analyse the legal requirement of "diligent search" across the orphan works legislation of the 15 countries members of Heritage Plus? 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 images, film and born-digital cultural heritage works.Through analytical and empirical approaches to mass digitization, the project will foster knowledge exchange between cultural heritage stakeholders, including small and medium size institutions. It will produce a high-value tool to maximise sustainable management of recent cultural heritage and use and re-use of related cultural artefacts.