A team of researchers from Scottish universities explore the value of data generated by the UK’s creative industries and their potential use in policymaking, advocating for a centralised data service.
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Cultural analytics in the UK: events data potential for the creative and cultural industries (Taylor & Francis Online)
This article investigates the potential for novel research utilising data generated by the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) in the UK, focussing on the long tail of metadata associated with the UK’s rich cultural events landscape. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 29 researchers and related domain experts to ascertain: (1) How cultural data is valued; (2) The landscape of cultural data; (3) How UK research can make better use of cultural events data; (4) The benefits and pitfalls of an evidence-based approach to cultural policy; and (5) The repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on how data-led work is positioned within the CCI. We advocate for the potential value of cultural events data to academic research, policy and industry, and also for a humanities-led approach. We suggest that a centralised cultural events data service for use in research, industry and policy is one way of supporting this.
The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI), as a major part of the UK economy, have attracted much research aiming to understand their structure, outputs and impact, from both economic and social perspectives. These industries generate a huge amount of data about events, venues, tickets and audiences and these data are extremely valuable to the field of cultural analytics, which incorporates aspects of “data science, the humanities, and media theory” for the “observation and analysis of global culture” (Manovich, Citation2020, p. 54)...Keep reading on Taylor & Francis Online.