WSIS + 10 review meeting “Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development” Measurement of the WSIS targets within UNESCO’s fields of.

WSIS + 10 review meeting

“Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development”

Measurement of the WSIS targets within UNESCO’s fields of competence. The role of statistics in building inclusive knowledge-

based societies

Guy FRANK, Ministry of Culture, LuxembourgProf. Monika HAGEDORN-SAUPE, Institute for Museum Research, Berlin - Germany

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DU GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG

Ministère de la Culture

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Content:

1. Where EGMUS came from

2. What is the aim and what are the main objectives of EGMUS

3. How EGMUS is functionning

4. The “instruments“ of EGMUS: common questionnaire, publications, website

5. The international collaboration

6. The future activities

7. Some data

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1. Where EGMUS came from

the necessity to continue LEG-work beyond the 3-years period (Leg stopped February 1999 and the new working group on cultural statistics strated only in March 2000)

the necessity to continue to use the knowhow and the experience of the experts involved in LEG-project as well as those meeting on a regular basis in Berlin and to work together

the necessity to bring together statistical and museum experts (an important deficiency in LEG-project)

the necessity to produce harmonised statistics of the musem sector

the necessity to establish a permanent group dealing with museum statistics

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2. What is the aim and what are the objectives of EGMUS

a) To achieve more comparability in the statistical data in the sub-domain of museums within the MS

b) To harmonise these data with Eurostat needs, custom and practice as well as with those of UNESCO

c) To produce comparable cultural statistics on museums relevant to policy-making and policy-evaluation in Europe

d) To agree on common questions and definitions based on UNESCO framework

e) To agree on indicators and guidelines

f) To produce regularly data and tables by including relevant aspects of museums, e.g.: financing and expenditure, employment, participation, etc

g) To look for the integration of museum surveys into obligatory and regular surveys directed by Eurostat like Time-Use Survey, Household Budget Survey, Survey on Income and Living Conditions, etc

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3. How EGMUS is functionning

• EGMUS includes coordinators of the LEG-project, very active members of the restricted working-group, experts from the museum field and members from associations working in museum area as well as external experts

• EGMUS members (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonis, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands) meet on a yearly basis and the coordination group as often as needed

• the emphasis lays on a pragmatic approach (introduce more flexibility in administrative work and work process in general, maintain active relationship with European and International organizations dealing with museum related affairs, ...)

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4. The “instruments“ of EGMUS

• the common questionnaire ALOKMI (Abridged List Of Museum Indicators)

• the publications (A Guide to European Museum Statistics)

• the website

• the work

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5. The international cooperationInternational institutions and networks

• Eurostat• Unesco• European Commission• Nemo

On-going projects

• Enumerate• Europeana Linked Heritage

Previous projects

• ESSnet culture statistics• Sterna• Athena• Euromuse-project.net• Numeric

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6. Future activities (general)

to motivate missing countries to join EGMUS

to update the list of questions and indicators

to improve time of producing comparable data

to finalize and publish the second edition of the Guide to European Museum Statistics

To fill existing gaps

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6. Future activities (specific a)Collaboration with the project ENUMERATE:

Q14: Estimate the percentage of your heritage collections that still need to be digitally reproduced?Q15 Does your organization collect born digital heritage?

Q20: Does your organization measure the number of time digital metadata and/or digital objects are being accessed by your users?

Q26: Please estimate your annual expenditure on DigitizationQ 28: What is the total number of paid staff engaged in the digitization activities of your institution on an annual basis?

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6. Future activities (specific b)Collaboration with the project ESSnet culture statistics:

Members of EGMUS involved in this project as coordinator (L) and 3 co-partners (out of 4) (CZ, EE, NL)

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7. Some data (a) Number of museums per 100.000 inhabitants

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7. Some data (b) Number of visitors per 100.000 inhabitants

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ANYQUESTIONS??

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THANK YOUVERY MUCH

for your ATTENTION

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