Innovative New Tech Project For Smes In The Content Sector To Be Launched During The London Book Fair

Over the past 20 years there has been an unprecedented explosion in the volume and types of digital creative content: from eBooks, music streaming and games, to online news and entertainment hubs and video-on-demand platforms.

The vision of the new ARDITO project, launching during the London Book Fair where several project partners will be meeting, is to automate the exchange of information about rights to any content type, between the owners of the content and users especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This will be done through a connected network of data – which we call the Rights Data Network.

Co-funded by the European Union Project Horizon 2020, ARDITO is all about providing simple tools and services to support SMEs in the creative content sector to find new business ideas though monetising the re-use of their content. In fact over 85% of all actors in the creative industries sector are small and medium sized businesses (SMEs), many of which are employing fewer than ten people but contributing enormous value to the digital value network.

Project Coordinator Paola Mazzucchi from mEDRA, one of the leading DOI registration agencies said โ€œEverything is digital today throughout this extraordinary โ€˜value networkโ€™ from the production process, the products, the supply chains, through to the way in which digital products and services are made available to consumers. But when users wish to re-use creative content it is hard to find information about who to ask for permission, which licences are available, and on which terms – which is where ARDITO comes in.โ€

Building on existing e-infrastructures, rights data standards and identifiers ARDITO brings together a group of well-established SMEs from different creative sectors (books, audiovisual and images) with a leading research centre and the Copyright Hub to accelerate the development of the Rights Data Network, in three key ways:

  • Optimising a range of content identification technologies (watermarks, content recognition, DOIs) for use in the RDN,
  • Integrating them into the Copyright Hub ecosystem, and
  • Developing new services, ready to bring to the market.

ARDITO will fill the gap in the digital content value network and connect online contents to rights information, by building a complementary digital rights data network (RDN). It does not start from scratch: it builds upon an earlier European Union co-funded project, the Rights Data Integration (RDI) Project (www.rdiproject.eu) which was a project that tested the technical framework developed by the Linked Content Coalition (www.linkedcontentcoalition.org). (i) The RDI Project demonstrated unequivocally how such a Rights Data Network could implement the LCC framework; and the Copyright Hub has provided a first implementation of how this works in practice.

The ARDITO project has a total duration of 18 months, and kicked off in February 2017. The project is structured into five work packages with clear deliverables – details of which can be found on our website www.ardito-project.eu together with information about the partners.

(i) The Linked Content Coalition (LCC) is a not-for-profit global consortium of standards bodies and registries. LCC members are organizations who create and manage data standards associated with content of one or more types, particularly for identifiers, metadata and messaging.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731760

Hot this week

Orbis Protect Acquires Panthera Group Limited

Orbis Protect announces the acquisition of Panthera Group Limited,...

Hamas Challenges UK Terror Ban in Landmark Legal Bid

In a historic legal move, the Palestinian resistance movement...

International School of Geneva supports UNESCO World Engineering Day 2025 campaign

International School of Geneva โ€“ Ecolint, as a leader...

Fortescue an Official Partner of UNESCOโ€™s 2025 World Engineering Day Campaignย 

Fortescue, a global green technology, energy and metals company,...

Topics

Orbis Protect Acquires Panthera Group Limited

Orbis Protect announces the acquisition of Panthera Group Limited,...

Hamas Challenges UK Terror Ban in Landmark Legal Bid

In a historic legal move, the Palestinian resistance movement...

International School of Geneva supports UNESCO World Engineering Day 2025 campaign

International School of Geneva โ€“ Ecolint, as a leader...

Fortescue an Official Partner of UNESCOโ€™s 2025 World Engineering Day Campaignย 

Fortescue, a global green technology, energy and metals company,...

The War Nobody Noticed: Is the U.S. Preparing a Nuclear Strike on Iran?

The question sounds absurdโ€”until you realize the war may...

Wall Street Veteran Paul Abrahimzadeh Joins 1789 Capital as Senior Partner

1789 Capital, the pioneering investment firm dedicated to providing...

SLB OneSubsea features in UNESCO World Engineering Day 2025 campaignย 

SLB OneSubsea, as a leader in subsea technology, has...

Related Articles

Popular Categories

spot_imgspot_img