Criteria and indicators of the main methods, tools and techniques used for collecting information to preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of European cultural heritage.

The main topic regards the development and definition of choice criteria and indicators of the main methods, tools and techniques (MTTs) used for collecting information to preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of European cultural heritage. In order to obtain this result it was arranged a questionnaire divided into rows (categories of data) and columns (questions). There were two main aims to be reached: 1. Development of criteria and indicators in order to define the most efficient MTTs regarding European architectural heritage; 2. Identification of key players (i.e. main categories of professionals who take part in data collection, monitoring and management). In this context it is important to point out that not all “category of data” (as information regarding the cultural heritage) has the same level of importance in the different European countries and, furthermore, not all the MTTs have the same diffusion.