Research aimed at public communication articulated with the configuration of cultural indicators from the study of the case of Portugal in the configuration of plausible indicators of reading and public appropriation on the practices of governmental entities in the field of culture. Is the information available accessible to the population? Is it possible to establish mechanisms or practices of public communication that articulate the reading, monitoring and evaluation of public actions? How can public information be transformed to enable the citizen and the manager to read and appropriately appropriate this information?