Towards large-scale Cultural Analytics in the Arts and Humanities

走向艺术和人文领域的大规模文化分析

• 批准号: AH/W007533/1
• 负责人: Melissa Terras
• 金额: $ 11.26万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW007533%2F1
• 关键词: Towards; large; scale; Cultural; Analytics

The UK has a world-leading cultural and creative economy, and every year there are hundreds of thousands of events, festivals, concerts, plays, and gigs, varying in scale from the very small and informal, to the large and coordinated. Events tell us much about the creative landscape: however, although data has been produced about them to facilitate listings, and ticket sales, there does not exist a service by which researchers can access this recently produced commercial data in order to generate accurate data-led analysis and visualisation of the UK's creative sector. Additionally, the data created by the events industry is large, and complex, involving commercial providers who have generated novel business models around data scraping, gathering, and dissemination. Any researcher who wishes to use this data has to navigate access to data, but also access to compute at scale, to generate novel understandings that may be of use in event planning, policy, or to identify potential trends, or opportunities for investment and support. Of particular interest at the moment is gathering accurate information on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK's events industry: although events data exists, no accurate reports have used this to understand the effects of the pandemic, and industry recovery. To provide such a data service that could support researchers, there needs to be an investigation into how best to provide this data to Arts and Humanities (A&H) researchers, many of whom have not undertaken data-analysis at this scale. Therefore, a particular needs-analysis requires to be done with A&H researchers, whilst also working closely with industry contacts to understand the landscape of events data, and how this - as an example of the type of data that is produced by the UK's cultural industries - can be provided to A&H researchers as a supported service that negotiates relationships between data providers and processors. Any service in this area needs to also consider privacy, copyright, and intellectual property, as well as looking at particular user needs. Our research will support the development and design of a data repository for the capture and analysis of UK cultural and creative industries data at scale, focussing particularly on events-based data. We will undertake a range of scoping and user needs analysis with a diverse community from industry, academia, and data service providers. We will show how A&H researchers are already using, or could make future use, of events based data, and the impact this type of research may have in understanding our economy, cultural environment, and physical infrastructure planning. We will undertake a pilot study, with our project consultants The List, who are the UK's major events listings based data provider and have over 15 years of experience operating in this area. We will aim to understand how researchers can analyse over 2GB of data covering 2.5m events organised in the UK between 2017 and 2021. Our outputs will include a specification for a cultural and creative industries data service that includes capital, operational, and support costs, providing a roadmap for how to build a service that can support the UK's A&H researchers in understanding the cultural and heritage industries at scale. We will also propose a skills and capacity building programme for the A&H research community in accessing and using this type of creative industry information from a large-scale data service that utilises High Performance Computing and Data Analytics. The University of Edinburgh is uniquely placed to be able to carry out such a study, given the conjunction of expertise which exists, and collaborations, between national UK computing infrastructure, major events such as the festivals, creative industry researchers, and the university's recent major investment into digital approaches across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (www.efi.ed.ac.uk).

英国拥有世界领先的文化和创意经济，每年都有成千上万的活动，节日，音乐会，戏剧和演出，规模从非常小和非正式到大型和协调。事件告诉我们很多关于创意景观：然而，虽然已经产生了关于他们的数据，以促进上市，门票销售，不存在一个服务，研究人员可以访问这个最近产生的商业数据，以生成准确的数据为主导的分析和可视化的英国的创意部门。此外，活动行业创建的数据庞大而复杂，涉及商业提供商，他们围绕数据抓取，收集和传播产生了新颖的商业模式。任何希望使用这些数据的研究人员都必须访问数据，但也必须访问大规模计算，以产生可能用于活动规划，政策或识别潜在趋势或投资和支持机会的新理解。目前特别令人感兴趣的是收集有关COVID-19大流行对英国活动行业影响的准确信息：尽管存在活动数据，但没有准确的报告使用这些数据来了解大流行的影响和行业复苏。为了提供这样的数据服务，可以支持研究人员，需要调查如何最好地提供这些数据给艺术和人文（A&H）的研究人员，其中许多人没有进行这种规模的数据分析。因此，需要与A&H研究人员进行特定的需求分析，同时还与行业联系人密切合作，以了解事件数据的情况，以及如何将其作为英国文化产业产生的数据类型的一个例子，作为一种支持服务提供给A&H研究人员，以协商数据提供者和处理者之间的关系。这一领域的任何服务都需要考虑隐私、版权和知识产权，以及特定的用户需求。我们的研究将支持数据存储库的开发和设计，用于捕获和分析英国文化和创意产业的大规模数据，特别是基于事件的数据。我们将与来自工业界、学术界和数据服务提供商的多元化社区进行一系列范围界定和用户需求分析。我们将展示A&H的研究人员如何使用，或可以使未来的使用，基于事件的数据，以及这种类型的研究可能对了解我们的经济，文化环境和物理基础设施规划的影响。我们将与我们的项目顾问The List一起进行试点研究，The List是英国主要事件列表数据提供商，在该领域拥有超过15年的运营经验。我们的目标是了解研究人员如何分析2017年至2021年期间在英国组织的250万次活动的2GB以上数据。我们的产出将包括一个文化和创意产业数据服务，包括资本，运营和支持成本的规范，提供了一个路线图，如何建立一个服务，可以支持英国的A&H研究人员在了解文化和遗产产业的规模。我们还将为A&H研究界提出一项技能和能力建设计划，以获取和使用利用高性能计算和数据分析的大规模数据服务中的此类创意产业信息。爱丁堡大学处于独特的地位，能够进行这样的研究，鉴于英国国家计算基础设施，节日等重大活动，创意产业研究人员之间存在的专业知识和合作的结合，以及大学最近对艺术，人文和社会科学的数字方法的重大投资爱丁堡未来研究所（www.efi.ed.ac.uk）。

项目成果

Evaluating events data for cultural analytics: a case study on the economic and social effects of Covid-19 on the Edinburgh Festivals

评估文化分析的事件数据：Covid-19 对爱丁堡节日的经济和社会影响的案例研究

• DOI: 10.1080/17510694.2024.2311883
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Creative Industries Journal
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Black S

Cultural analytics in the UK: events data potential for the creative and cultural industries

英国的文化分析：创意和文化产业的活动数据潜力

• DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2023.2263378
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Cultural Trends
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Black S