Dinenage highlights AI legislation ‘concerns’
The chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Caroline Dinenage has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, raising…
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Want to be accessible and inclusive? Start with your culture
It’s more important than ever, says Lauren James, head of content and web projects at Splitpixel, for the arts to be accessible…
National Youth Theatre and Microsoft team up on AI workshops
The National Youth Theatre (NYT) is partnering with Microsoft to offer a national programme of free workshops to help young people…
Digital modelling centre for heritage sector to launch
A new £1m digital modelling and analysis centre for the conservation and heritage science sector will open next year, it has…
BBC arts boss defends commitment to cultural programming
BBC’s Head of Arts and Classical Music TV, Suzy Klein, has countered suggestions that the broadcaster is not supporting…
Place-based partnerships: Delivering more together
Fiona Morris explores the wide-ranging benefits of arts organisations building place-based partnerships.
Launch of Museum Data Service ‘a major milestone’ for culture sector
A digital platform that will bring together more than 100 million object records from 1,750 accredited museums and other collectio…
Digital arts projects in Northern Ireland receive over £75k
Eight artists from Northern Ireland will share £75,835 of funding toward the creation of art projects using digital tec…
User-centred thinking: Bridging the gap between assumption and truth
Anyone involved in marketing, or creating websites or digital products will know the phrase ‘You are not your customer&rsquo…
Illuminate audience data reporting suspended for a further year
Arts Council England (ACE) says it wants to make improvements to the Illuminate software platform to make it 'straightforward&…
Big tech firms told to end ‘unlawful’ use of creators’ content
A coalition of trade associations and unions representing creatives has written to big tech firms telling them to end the "un…
IT outage hits arts and culture sector
Arts and culture organisations among industries worldwide affected by major IT outage.
Best practice in digital accessibility
The Space has convened an Accessibility Working Group to support the sector to work in more inclusive and accessible ways. One of…
Digital content: Less like marketing, more like journalism
A focus on niche audiences and regular content formats could be key to amplifying a new type of storytelling, writes Zosia Poulter…
Firm urges culture sector to save Google Analytics data
Arts and culture organisations will be able to access free support tools to save historical data from Google Analytics before the…
Creativity for creativity’s sake
Does your website give equal priority to main house shows and community events? Lauren James has some tips on how to use your webs…
Concerns of ‘digital divide’ across cultural organisations
Research finds a 'huge range of effectiveness' between different cultural organisations when it comes to web pages focused…
How to produce sustainable arts projects
With her experience of working across multiple projects, Sarah Fortescue explores how the sector can deliver what they do best, in…
Get Paid Guide for music creators published
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published a Get Paid Guide which it says aims to help demystify metadata for music crea…
British Library shares learnings from cyber attack
The institution says its reliance on legacy infrastructure has impacted its ability to restore services quickly in the wake of a m…
Digital capture: A transformative tool for reaching new audiences
Can arts organisations reach new audiences through strategies like digital capture? Recent successes offer insights into the poten…
Teaching empathy
Empathy is vital in the work of NHS staff, but it's not always part of their professional development. Persis Jadé Maravala i…
Artists working with immersive tech to get £6m support
Immersive Arts, a UK-wide three-year programme backed by the UK’s four arts councils, expects to support over 200 artists an…
2024 set to be a groundbreaking year
The speed of innovation in the digital world can be hard to keep pace with and, as Katie Moffat writes, this is going to be a roll…
