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Contribute to international survey on orphan works!

Experts who create and curate digital content from public sector organisations across Europe, are invited to contribute to JISC's international survey on "orphan works" called in from the Cold Europa 2010.

There are millions of so-called "orphan works" - photographs, recordings, texts and other ephemera from the last 100 years - which risk becoming invisible because rights holders are not known or easy to trace.

Now this topic is the focus of this survey commissioned by the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance in conjunction with the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) and the Wellcome Trust.

The survey aims to establish how much time, effort and money is spent on orphan works across Europe by people working in the public sector and to find out the effect orphan works have on cultural heritage preservation at an international level.

Closing date 26 February 2010 at 18.00 GMT.
http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/476EBBEAF7ED1854/