Title: MAINTENANCE AFTER FIDIS

Maintenance after FIDIS

After five years, the ID Law Survey should be well-established and have gained renown on the Internet as the place to look for ID-related legal information. This aim can be fulfilled if a well-functioning network of correspondents is established and if FIDIS succeeds in creating a large basis of information to be stored in the database. The experience of existing Law Surveys (see note ) shows that, once a Law Survey has been set up and contains a sufficient number of entries, and particularly once it shows that it is being updated on a regular basis, public recognition will follow. If this vision works out for the IDLS, it should be feasible to request funding to maintain the IDLS after FIDIS has ended, from public and/or from private funds. FIDIS will make an effort to request further funding in the fourth and fifth year of FIDIS. Should further funding not be (immediately) available, Tilburg University intends to make an effort to maintain the IDLS by requesting funding by itself and in the meantime will maintain the IDLS on at least a basic level so that the database is not becoming outdated too much until new funding is acquired.