[CENL-EC] The need for active and increased development of the EUIPO out of commerce works portal, in particular through an application programming interface (API)

[Janne Andresoo]

Dear Frank,

It sounds and looks good.

With best regards
Janne


Janne Andresoo

Peadirektor | Director General
Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu | National Library of Estonia

+372 6 307 600

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Teema: [CENL-EC] The need for active and increased development of the EUIPO out of commerce works portal, in particular through an application programming interface (API)


Dear all,

please find attached a draft letter to the Executive Director of EUIPO addressing the need to develop the API for the out of commerce works portal. Please send your changes or additions to me not later than February 13th. If I do not hear from you I assume that you agree with this draft.

Thanks and best regards
Frank





The need for active and increased development of the EUIPO out of commerce works portal, in particular through an application programming interface (API)

Dear Mr. Archambeau,

in December 2022 the Chair of the Out of Commerce Works Working Group Copyright Community within the Europeana Network Association wrote a letter to Mr Havermans in which she expressed the severe need of the Europeana Community for the EUIPO to develop a data interface (API) for the out of commerce works portal to facilitate automated input and output workflows.

As chair of the Executive Committee of CENL, the Conference of European National Librarians, I would like to express my strong support for this urgent need. CENL is the network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries. National Libraries like numerous other cultural heritage institutions preserve and curate millions of out of commerce works.

The Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive has created an opportunity for their dissemination, but access to this wealth of knowledge will not be possible unless the system works well in practice. This includes the need for an efficient functioning of the EUIPO portal, one that responds to the needs, priorities and workflows of the cultural heritage institutions that provide the data. A system supported via an API can lead to a substantial increase in data being made available through the EUIPO portal, data that would otherwise not be shared because of the limitations that the current manual upload workflow will present for many cultural heritage institutions. It is therefore essential to make every step of the process an easy one if we want the system to be extensively used.

The National Libraries of Europe are looking forward to any further information and to collaborating for the success of the out of commerce works system.

Best regards

Frank Scholze
Chair CENL Executive Committee
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