SIG-STATS Sample Clauses

SIG-STATS. The Special Interest Group on Cultural Heritage Statistics (SIG-STATS) noted that substantial variance was found in the Numeric survey concerning the recorded costs of digitisation. Here are some explanations for this: • the way questions about expenditure were phrased may have resulted in too much ambiguity; • the inclusion or exclusion by respondents of 'invisible costs', such as staffing costs, costs of making policy or project plans, etc.; • there have been different persons from the same institution answering the survey questions, or different types of persons across the institutions; • the complexity of the organisations could vary considerably. SIG-STATS concluded: It is not justified to make generalisations about digitisation costs solely based on the responses in the Numeric survey. But SIG-STATS also proclaimed: “calculating costs for digitisation projects is (…) complicated (…), yet for the management of institutions, policy makers and funding agencies a better insight in these costs would be profitable.”