Published June 6, 2024 | Version 1.0
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Understanding Membership Data in the Creative Industries: The Creative Edinburgh Data Project

Description

In October 2023, the teams of Creative Edinburgh and Creative Informatics joined forces to spearhead an innovative project exploring the power of data for the creative sector, called Creative Edinburgh & Creative Informatics Data Project. The overall goal of this innovative project was threefold: (1) to conduct a case study project into exploring the power of data for the creative sector, specifically for Creative Edinburgh (CE); (2) to develop concrete recommendations for CE how to improve their existing data collection and membership database approach; and (3) to showcase this project as a potential template for other creative sector organizations regarding the deployment of an ethical and diversity-embracing approach to using data as a powerful tool for the creative industries sector. This report documents the work undertaken and provides a range of key recommendations across three categories: User-Centricity; Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; and Data-Circularity.

Notes (English)

Creative Informatics has been a partnership between The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, Creative Edinburgh and Codebase. Creative Informatics was funded by: the Creative Industries Clusters Programme managed by the Arts & Humanities Research Council as part of the Industrial Strategy; the Scottish Funding Council; the Data Driven Innovation Programme of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal; and the UK Government Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Files

Creative Edinburgh Data Report Final 7June2024.pdf

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Additional details

Funding

Arts and Humanities Research Council
Creative Informatics: Data Driven Innovation for the Creative Industries AH/S002782/1

Dates

Issued
2024-06-06
Publication of version 1.0