International Activities
EGMUS is actively involved in a number of European and international initiatives related to museum statistics and cultural data. These collaborations support the development of harmonised methods and the exchange of expertise across countries.
Selected Projects and Collaborations:
An international standard defining core concepts for museum statistics. Developed in cooperation with EGMUS to support harmonised data collection.
With the publication of ISO 18461:2016, museum statistics have a unified international framework. Built on years of work by EGMUS and coordinated by experts from across Europe, this standard defines key museum types, visitor services, and counting methods to ensure globally comparable data. It also lays the foundation for future standards like ISO/CD 21246 – Key Indicators for Museums.
A European project that collected data on the digital activities of museums. EGMUS was an associated partner and uses ENUMERATE results to complement its own work on digitisation.
EGMUS was actively involved in the ENUMERATE Thematic Network, which provided annual stakeholder reports to document the activities and outcomes of the network.
An EU initiative aiming to improve the comparability and quality of cultural statistics across Europe. EGMUS contributes to the cultural heritage and museum-specific dimensions of this effort.
The ESSnet on Cultural Statistics developed a new European framework for cultural data – enabling reliable, comparable statistics on culture’s contribution to the economy and society. The final report presents key recommendations on cultural employment, participation, trade in cultural goods, and more.
In this section we provide links to museum-related overviews, digitisation and statistical projects which have an international scope and involve several European countries.
- NEMO: Museums support Ukraine
- ENUMERATE intends to create a reliable baseline of statistical data about digitization, digital preservation and online access to cultural heritage in Europe. https://pro.europeana.eu/resources/statistics/enumerate, last visited: 08.05.2019.
- Linked Heritage aims to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors.
linkedheritage.eu, last visited: 08.05.2019. - Europeana.eu is a portal that acts as an interface to millions of digitised books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe.
europeana.eu, last visited: 08.05.2019. - The public access internet portal euromuse.net gives accurate information on major exhibitions in European museums.
euromuse.net, last visited: 08.05.2019. - STERNA is a Network project which supports the objectives of the European Digital Library by pioneering the integration of semantically enriched digital resources in the field of natural science, biodiversity and conservation.
sterna-net.eu, last visited: 08.05.2019. - ATHENA and AthenaPlus were projects which developed a framework to specifically tackle the gaps existing in content provision to Europeana.
https://pro.europeana.eu/project/athenaplus
The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe contains a comprehensive web-based survey of cultural policies in European countries and Canada. Initiated by the Council of Europe in 1998, it presently covers cultural policies of 42 countries. In the long run all 48 member states which participate in the European Cultural Convention should be included. The updating of the Compendium is an ongoing process. Targeted to a broad audience of policy makers and managers of cultural institutions, researchers and students, the Compendium offers ample possibilities to conduct comparative policy research and analysis.
Further information about international Cultural Policies you can find here:
- i2010: Digital libraries is the first part of the European Commission strategy "Digital Agenda for Europe". It promotes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to make cultural and scientific resources available, by means of digitisation and the creation of thematic portals such as Europeana. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/64/digital-agenda-for-europe , https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/i2010-digital-libraries.html and ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries.
- The second part of the above mentioned strategy has already set goals for 2020. Horizon 2020 will focus in creating a favourable an stable environment for research, innovation and market in Europe.
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe_en. - Supported by the Council of Europe, the European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research offers a collection of European cultural policies and current statistical data about cultural industries.
culturalpolicies.net. - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) offers global population and economic indicators with focus on developing countries. Data can be consulted and downloaded here.
unctad.org.
