The Collections Trust has announced ENUMERATE, a 3-year programme funded by the European Commission to assess the extent to which European Member States are digitising their cultural heritage and making it available online.

ENUMERATE will provide strategic intelligence about digitisation to inform future policy and funding priorities across Europe. The research will focus on digitisation, digital preservation and the costs of making digital heritage openly available for re-use on the web.

Museums, libraries and archives are now being invited to participate in the first annual ENUMERATE survey, which can be completed online at http://tinyurl.com/enumeratesurvey and a full set of the questions can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/enumeratequestions. The deadline for responses is the 1st March 2012.

From Spring 2012, survey participants will be able to access a Google Analytics-style dashboard which allows them to view their own responses alongside information provided by other institutions.

Speaking about the programme, Collections Trust’s International Development Manager Gordon McKenna commented, “The work of ENUMERATE in gathering intelligence about the state of digitisation in Europe is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to affect policy and funding in European Member States. It will also provide participants with detailed statistics which they can use both to advocate for digitisation funding in their own organisations and to celebrate their achievements in putting their collections online. I encourage you to complete the survey today.”

Further information about the ENUMERATE Programme, and the participating countries can be found at http://www.enumerate.eu. Further information about the Collections Trust’s work with the European Commission can be found at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/programmes/european-projects.