Simultaneous surveying across Europe takes tremendous efforts Sample Clauses

Simultaneous surveying across Europe takes tremendous efforts. The central characteristic in the approach of measuring the progress of digital cultural heritage in Europe was the harmonisation of measuring across all EU countries. To enable this, the ENUMERATE Team chose to run the surveys in limited time frames across all EU countries (supplemented with the EFTA countries). A monolithic questionnaire was developed, which was translated and distributed simultaneously. The main lesson we can learn from the project is that it takes tremendous efforts from a large group of people to achieve full synchronisation across all the countries. For future surveys, we would like to recommend a more modular approach, to be more flexible and adaptable in collecting relevant data. This can be done, for instance, by tapping into national surveys, as run by some national governments. This may also diminish the need for central funding. However, a central place where the data can be collected, analysed and published will still be needed. ENUMERATE sees the Europeana Pro platform as a good vehicle to this end.