Cultural Event Information: Early Research into Measuring Culture on the Ground

Chun, Susan; Lee, Yvonne; Goldman, Kate Haley

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Title

Cultural Event Information: Early Research into Measuring Culture on the Ground

Author(s)

• Chun, Susan
• Lee, Yvonne
• Goldman, Kate Haley

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• culture
• arts
• indicators
• metrics
• data
• event
• cultural vitality

Abstract

The question of how best to measure culture in a location is intensely debated in the arts sector and in the adjacent disciplines of urban planning and economic policy. Our research examined a wide array of methods of counting culture and discovered a slew of literature on measuring high-level financial, employment, and census statistics in the sector, but found no systematic means of measuring culture at a granular level as it experienced by citizens. Our research hypothesizes that information about cultural events can be aggregated using mixed methodologies to produce a previously-unseen view of culture in a community that may be used in future research to give insight on how culture differs and compares across locations. A pilot project conducted in winter 2012-2013 in Los Angeles tested new methods for identifying sources of cultural event data, aggregating and normalizing them, and evaluating for comprehensiveness, feasibility, consistency, and sustainability.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14353

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