This deliverable aims to describe inDICEs’ targeted methodologies of research and analysis, briefly describing the Methodological Toolbox as the set of targeted methodologies defined through an in-depth review of the current state of the art approaches, both in relation to the research questions and to the kind of available and acquired data and their structure. These are the main components of the Methodological Toolbox: inDICEs Theoretical Framework, Targeted strategies of data gathering and data analysis, Available datasets, Set of useful indicators. This set of methodologies is aimed at supplying inDICEs with new data in order to develop reports on CHI digitization status, to support the Self-assessment tool development, to populate the Observatory Platform and to offer insight in the understanding of the users' behaviour (in their use of different personas), as well as in the understanding of the social and economic impact of digitized culture as a basis for the design of evidence-based policies in the future context of the Digital Single Market (DSM).

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020-DT-GOVERNANCE-13-2019) under grant agreement n° 870792.