Monitoring Cultural Heritage. An Analysis of Contemporary Practices for Data Collection

Monitoring the impact of cultural heritage on socio-economic development is becoming a necessity, including justifying the preservation of heritage in contemporary societies. It provides arguments showing the importance of cultural heritage for strengthening the sustainable functioning of the socioe...

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Published in:Perspektywy Kultury
Main Authors: Góral, Anna, Kopeć, Katarzyna
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Polish
Published: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie 2023
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.ignatianum.edu.pl/pk/article/view/2509
https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2023.4001.09
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Summary:Monitoring the impact of cultural heritage on socio-economic development is becoming a necessity, including justifying the preservation of heritage in contemporary societies. It provides arguments showing the importance of cultural heritage for strengthening the sustainable functioning of the socioeconomic environment. The last decades of the 20th century involved great interest in the topic of indicators relating to the measurement of the cultural sector – on the international arena (UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics), on the European arena (eg European Network for Cultural Statistics) and the national one. Important research was also undertaken on local or regional scales, striving to capture the value of cultural heritage (e.g., the Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe study carried out in 2013–2015). The aim of the article is to identify and characterize the currently practiced approaches to monitoring the impact of cultural heritage on socio-economic development. Based on the desk research analysis and case study method, model solutions for collecting statistical data on cultural heritage in Australia, Iceland, Germany, the United States, Switzerland and the United Kingdom were examined. As a result, four approaches to collecting data on cultural heritage and its impact on socio-economic development were distinguished. -gospodarczy staje się koniecznością uzasadniającą m.in. zachowanie dziedzictwa we współczesnych społeczeństwach. Dostarcza ono argumentów pokazujących znaczenie dziedzictwa kulturowego dla wzmacniania zrównoważonego funkcjonowania otoczenia społeczno-gospodarczego. Ostatnie lata XX w. pokazały duże zainteresowanie tematyką wskaźników odnoszących się do pomiaru sektora kultury – zarówno na arenie międzynarodowej (UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics), jak i europejskiej (np. European Network for Cultural Statistics) czy krajowej. Ważne badania podejmowano ponadto w skali lokalnej czy regionalnej, dążąc do uchwycenia wartości dziedzictwa kulturowego (np. badanie Cultural Heritage ...