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Open Innovations presents
A world of culture
This hub page brings together our work supporting the arts and cultural sector to innovate with data. We partner with many organisations to help them tell compelling stories, engage with their audiences, and evaluate the impact of their programmes.
Cultural participation has declined in recent years, and we believe that good data infrastructure is needed to respond to changing behaviour and deliver activities that people love.
Our work is helping to measure the impact and legacy of cultural programmes, celebrate the cultural heritage of our region, and to promote investment and support for the sector.
Starting with Leeds Digital Festival, we have acted as a Data Partner for several cultural programmes including the LEEDS 2023 Year of Culture, Bradford 2025 City of Culture, as well as developing the Culture Connect Data Observatory with Northumbria University.
Explore how we’re driving innovation with data below. If you’re interested in working with us, we’d love to hear from you: hello@open-innovations.org.
Projects
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Bradford 2025
We are delighted to be working with the Bradford 2025 City of Culture, supporting them to develop and implement their Data Strategy for their year-long calendar of events! Watch this space for more updates on our work with them.
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North East Culture Connect
We've been working on a prototype data observatory which is a project by Northumbria University, North East Combined Authority (NECA) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
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Culturedale Audience Tool
The Culturedale Audience Tool helps convert lists of attendee postcodes to summarised lists of attendees by Local Authority, Calderdale Ward and ONS Lower Layer Super Output Area.
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Leeds City Council Culture Dashboard
We've been working with Leeds City Council, building a website showcasing how the Leeds Cultural Investment Programme has supported creative individuals and organisations in the region.
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Leeds Schools' Cultural Engagement
Before LEEDS 2023, there was a lack of data available on how young people engage with culture in the region. This research project started with the aim of addressing these data gaps and has evolved into a hub of data and research into creative education.
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Leeds 2023
For two years, we worked with the LEEDS 2023 Year of Culture supporting them as their Data Partner. We built them a Data Microsite, that consolidates data across the organisation's operations, events and activities.
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Leeds Digital Festival report
We created a dashboard that presents data on Leeds Digital Festival.
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Open Audience
A tool to help you understand your audience from their postcodes or output areas. It uses open demographics data to create a profile of your audience.
Blog Posts
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Culture Connect: A culture data observatory for the North East
A summary of our work on Culture Connect.
By Tazmin Chiles
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Our Work on Culture: Creating Data Infrastructure for the Sector
A summary of our cultural projects to date.
By Tazmin Chiles
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Data Infrastructure for Arts, Culture and Creative Education
An update on our work with the University of Leeds, and some thoughts on the sector's future directions.
By Tazmin Chiles
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Using Data to Map Creative Education
Updates on the Mapping Creative Education project.
By Tazmin Chiles
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Being Open on the Web with LEEDS 2023
We're working with LEEDS 2023 as their Data Partner. Learn more about what that means.
By Michelle Brook & Tazmin Chiles
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LEEDS 2023 Year of Culture Data Partners
Announcing our work supporting LEEDS 2023 as their Data Partner for the Year of Culture.
By Giles Dring
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Advocating for Cultural Education for Young People
We're working to map creative education in Leeds.
By Tazmin Chiles