Resources tagged with data collection

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Video: Supporting Science project by Butterfly Conservation

This recording has English subtitles and is 15 minutes in length.

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Creating a collaboratively produced learning output using interactive digital technology

This is ‘how to use digital tools to support collaboration’ guide was produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Connected Heritage programme. 1. Project background The Archaeology Audience Network (AAN) is a project that brings together many of the UK’s leading archaeological organisations delivering archaeology for public benefit into a community of practice. … Read more

Recruit and manage digital volunteers to deliver data analysis projects

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Building Resilience in South West Woodlands was a four-year Plantlife project (2018 – 2022), to raise awareness of Atlantic woodlands across Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, whilst implementing important management … Read more

Ensuring ethical best practice in data storage and management

1. What are ‘ethical considerations’? Ethical considerations are an attempt to ensure that information about an individual is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. This is an increasingly common concern as any area of cultural heritage may include personal, confidential and sensitive data which provides valuable historiographical or contextual information for understanding the … Read more

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What are the active measures I need to put into place to address issues around data archiving and storage?

1. What is data archiving and why is it important? Working in the heritage sector, you know that some of the data your organisation creates today will become tomorrow’s historical artefact. But creating data is the easy part – you need to be able to find, access and use that data in the future. The … Read more

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How can we measure our current environmental impact?

1. Environmental impact assessments and your organisation It is essential that organisations measure, plan and minimise activity that might have a negative impact on the environment. Socio-economic activities have already created enormous environmental imbalances and population growth continues to contribute towards the depletion of natural resources. This has led to: Global warming. Climate change. Loss of biodiversity. Ocean acidification. … Read more

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Using segmentation methods to understand your audience

1. Introduction It is important for any organisation to reflect and respond to the needs of its audiences. A common pitfall for many arts and heritage organisations is the assumption that just because we value what we do, then others will too. This is especially the case when thinking about finding new, perhaps younger, audiences … Read more

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How do I gain permission to use other people’s material in my open licensed asset?

1. What is an open licensed asset? This guide is to help you and your heritage organisation navigate through the process of gaining permission from other people to include their copyright material in your open licensed asset. Open licensed assets are types of creative content which are made available for everyone to freely use, share … Read more

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What is visitor data and how do I collect it when I don’t have a ticketing or ‘Customer Relationship Management’ (CRM) system?

1. Why is visitor data important? Visitor data is, or should be, the beating heart of the organisation. Why? Because without it you don’t really know who your visitors are, where they come from and how they interact or engage with you (or not) and as a result how will you keep them informed and … Read more

Arts Adventurers: finding and creating community advocates to support marketing and data collection

A useful guide by Creative Scene sharing their work on creating community ambassadors to increase audiences from segments of lower engagement, build audience capacity at neighbourhood venues and increase data collection at events.