1. 2007 Reflection Year on Periodic Reporting
Berlin, November 2005
Anne LEMAISTRE
WHC/POL in collaboration with IMS

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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)

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

7. 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

8. 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, …) ?

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

15. 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 ?