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The International Symposium on the Measurement of Digital Cultural Products, jointly sponsored by the Observatoire de la culture et des communications (OCCQ) at the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) and the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), in collaboration with the Carmelle and Rémi-Marcoux Chair in Arts Management at HEC-Montreal, was held May 9-11, 2016.

Bringing together over 130 participants and 50 presenters, over half of whom were from other countries, the purpose of this symposium was to examine the issues confronting statistics agencies arising from new platforms for disseminating digital cultural content and their impact on the market. Researchers and experts were invited to present new methods, practices and innovations to enhance understanding of the challenges in producing statistics on the economics of culture and digital cultural
products.