All across Europe, a quiet revolution is taking place as cultural institutions employ digitisation and cultural internet services to safeguard and widen access to their materials, but who knows at what cost? And how can we measure the relative progress that has been made? To answer these questions, the Institute of Public Finance has been appointed by the European Commission to undertake "NUMERIC", a two-year study (May 2007 until May 2009) to measure the investment made in the EU, and to catalogue the achievements of digitising Europe`s cultural heritage and information materials.  The timetable for the research is being progressed as follows:

The current phase of the study is engaged on the implementation of sample surveys in each country, and this work in 2008 is phased as follows: