2007 Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Anne LEMAISTRE WHC/POL in collaboration with IMS

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 General comments Too many elements of information/data Difficulty to compare them (different questionnaires) Reliability of data No statistic indicators requested No link yet between PR tool and other WH tools/documents (SOC, Nomination dossier)

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Questionnaire: Improvement of the questionnaire over the years For Europe Region: questionnaire on a digital format: 100% rate of response for Section I Questions sometimes ambiguous: difficulty to translate them into statistics

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Data collected Far too many data Data sheet per country: Asia/Pacific (but PDF) and Europe (Database) Data sheet per property: Asia/Pacific (but PDF) and Europe (Database on-going) Answers to questionnaires are entered into a database: only for Europe Statistics per question: for all regions but only in a database for Europe (Jorun)

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Accessibility to data and final reports Access to questionnaire by SP with password All final reports (except LAC and Europe Sections II) are accessible online in PDF format (World Heritage Papers) All final reports are accessible online, but in WORD format as Committee working documents Cd-roms : Asia/Pacific and Europe (Section I)

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Relation between SOC and PR

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Relation between SOC and PR : Coverage (no comparison on contents) SOC covered 142 properties (including in Danger) under the same period of time PR allows a broader coverage : 496 properties

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Immediate follow-up to PR How to manage : revision of Statement of OUV requested by SP ? boundaries clarification ? change of names requested by SP ? boundaries modification ? additional information (new maps, …) ?

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Perspectives for the 2nd cycle: in terms of objectives in terms of contents in terms of process in terms of format/questionnaire in terms of relations with other tools

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 In terms of objectives: OG’s objectives Building baseline data Building statistical indicators To cover properties never assessed by PR

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 In terms of process: Systematic and sole use of online questionnaire? Avantages : Less human resources required to copy data Data stored directly in the database Corrections possible by SP during the process

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 In terms of format: To simplify the process, as requested by SP (volume of data / time / costs) Two types of format are needed: One format for the 496 properties already assessed by PR One format for the 316 properties never assessed

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Link with other databases: Nominations Management plans Retrospective Inventory SOC Decisions

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Property data sheet SOC NOMINATIONS Management plans DECISIONS

Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting Berlin, 10-11 November 2005 Comments Sources of data should be mentioned and dated Questionnaire should request statistic indicators and assessment of Regional programmes Questions Is it acceptable for SPs ? Do we use the same questionnaire for properties already assessed by PR and properties not yet assessed ?