Donau-Universität Krems.
Die Universität für Weiterbildung.
Donau-Universität Krems.
Die Universität für Weiterbildung.
Art, Culture
and
Open Data
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Who we are
• Center for E-Governance, Danube University Krems
• Advanced training towards MSc & MBA in Management & IT
• Research on the Intersection of
– IT-Usage
– Government Processes and Procedures
– Citizens

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Our Projects
• Austrian Chancellery
– Project Group eDemocracy and workplace of the future
– round table public sector register architecture
– Open Data Applications for Austria
– Development of Open Government Data Standards
• Ministry of Finance
– Re-occuring jour fixe with IT-department
• City of Vienna
– Study on the implementation of the Open Government strategy
– Support on Open Data projects

http://data.wien.gv.at/katalog/

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What you can expect
1. Importance, Benefits, Potentials, Costs & Risks of
Open Government Data
2. Examples of successful OGD-Initiatives and
Applications of OGD in Art and Culture
3. Importance of „Culture“ for the City of Vienna
4. Identification of Open Government Data Sets

Benefits | Costs
Potentials | Risks1.

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Demand of Open Govt. Data (UK)
http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedKingdom/Local%20Assets/Documents/Market%20insights/Deloitte%20Analytics/uk-da-open-growth.pdf, p.5

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Benefits and Potentials
• Transparency, Participation, Trust
• Additional resource for economic development
• Future: increased tax income?

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Benefits and Potentials - for Vienna
• Show-casing the various fields of work of
administration
• Improved trans-departmental communication
(out of silo-thinking and acting)
• Reduction of administrative efforts

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Benefits and Potentials for Vienna
as a well-known cultural metropole
• Open Government Data stimulates creativity
„fully realize public art's potential to get people
engaged with ideas, community, history and culture
— to appreciate those things, communicate with
others about it, make it relevant”
• Engaging the public in cultural policy setting
• Improived inclusion of cultural agents and artists
in cultural adminsitration.

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Costs
• Open Government Data is an infrastructure
measure
• Organizational costs: changed responsibilities and
new required channels of collaboration between
public sector departments
• Technical costs: adaption of data formats
– Provision of Interfaces and APIs
– Adherence to promised update cycles may require the
adaption of IT processes

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Risks
• For the Administration
– Lose of Control (interpretational power)
– fear of consequences due to erroneous data sets
– Licensing and liability
• For the citizenry
– Threat to established business models
– Consolidation of the digital divide

Administration Citizenry
• Increased IT-automation
• Improved, department-spanning
communication & collaboration
• Inclusion of external stakeholders
• More efficient administrative procedures
• Exhibition of administrative actions
and responsibilities
• Encouragement to creativity
and self-determination
• New products and diversity
Open Data Forces
DataData
Economy
Citizens
…

Adminsitration & Public
Open Data Forces
DataData
Data
Novel Products and Services

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Forces of Power
• Administration gives Data o the Public
– Data about events
– Sold tickets and attendants
– Web site statistics
– Funding
• The public delivers answers
– At which time get the most tickets sold?
– Which parts of a web site attract the most visitors?
– Who (age, gender) is provided the highest amounts funding?

© Aaron Koblin, http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/NYTE/index.html
Examples2.

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Demand for data sets about art and culture
Generates
10% demand out of
4% supply
 High demand
* 2013-07-17: http://opengov.es, 440 Datenätze, 17 Bereich „cultura“

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Art in Context of Open Data
Some people look at the abundance of urban data out
there and see an academic research paper.
Others maybe see a table or a graph or a chart.

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Art in Context of Open Data
Far more interesting would be getting the
rest of our cultural output into indexable,
searchable form, usable by any coder with
a yen to explore. This lifting of art into the
cloud would be a heavenly act indeed,
enabling a new generation of New Curators.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2012/apr/27/data-culture-curation-open-art

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Terms & procedures for Art & Open Data
• Generative Art
– Create art of data based on algorithms
http://generative.net/read/home
• Curate
– Adapt existing data in a way to be useful in unknown but interoperable
applications.
– Connect, share, mash
– http://www.dataportability.org/
• Tagging
– Adding meta data to existing entities
– Tools for Texts: http://annotateit.org/, http://textusproject.org/
– Tools for Images: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mediatagger/,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Image_Annotator

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Tagging
http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings
Your Paintings Tagger is part of a project run by the Public Catalogue Foundation
and the BBC to put all 200,000 publicly owned oil paintings online
on the Your Paintings website.

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Tagging
OKFN: http://beta.openphilosophy.org, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

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Mapmaker, Artist, or
Programmer?
• Locals and Tourists:
Geotagging
• Pictures from Flickr and
Picasa
• Where do people take
pictures?
• http://www.flickr.com/phot
os/walkingsf/sets/7215762
4209158632/
• Example: Vienna

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Digital/interactive art
• Colour by numbers Stockholm: mobile phone as remote control
• Collaboration: Interactive design, architecture and art (Loove
Broms, Milo Lavén Erik Krikortz)

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Data used for art
• Aaron Koblin: Flight patterns
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/index.html
• Awards/Festivals: National Science Foundation: 1st Science
Visualization; Japan Media Arts Festival; Ars Electronica;
SIGGRAPH; Coachella; Golden Horse Taiwan; iDat Singapore;
Media Art Fiesland; Boston Cyber Arts; TED; MediaMatic; Todays
Art
• Data used: FAA, 1 day of August 2008, 205.000 flights

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Project Open Cultuur Data Competition (Dänemark)
• Cultural Open Data challenge
– http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/competition/
• Data sets of Museums and the art scene
• Application via mailing list and twitter
• Winner: Muse App: Creative web tool for museums
– Remix of well know art
– User share „their“
artpiece on social networks
• Museumsquiz
Rijks Museum

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Data Art / Application: Immersion
https://immersion.media.mit.edu/demo
E-Mail analysis: Who is having contact with whom and which intensity

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Mapping Art (1)
• Philadelphia: Muralapp
• Cooperation with Philadelphia
Mural Arts Program, Code for
America (CfA)
• Integration of Foursquare
• Over 3.000 wall paintings in the city
(Bay Area)
• „Public art can tell you the fabric
of the city — it tells you about
history and people, it engages and
informs at the same time.”
• Use in different cities: Portland,
Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco,
Honolulu, Norfolk

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Mapping Art (2): PublicArtPDX
• Depicts public art in Portland, Oregon,
USA
• Cooperation between Regional Arts &
Culture Council, the City of Portland’s
Bureau of Technology Services and public
servants.
• Open Data as part of Civic Apps Challenge
http://www.civicapps.org/
• More than 400 metro artefacts (historic
statues, fountains, pictures, wall
paintings); Details of the artists
• “Discover art you never knew about
tucked inside public buildings, such as
fire stations” (…) “Adjust the precise
location of works of art to help us
improve the map for everyone”

CarbonArts
Sydney

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Project / Sensing Sydney (Australia)
• Environment data marriaged with art
– http://www.carbonarts.org/projects/sensing-sydney-
public-art-commission/
• Joint project of the City of Sydney with Carbon
Arts
– Carbon Arts: Joint venture of sustainability experts
and artists
– Supported by ANAT (Australian Network for Arts and
Technology) & ISEA2013 (International Symposium on
Electronic Art)

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Project / Sensing Sydney (Australien) (ctd.)
• Means & Processes
– Website http://sensingsydney.com/
– Data as Download and via Google Spreadsheet
• Data used
– Museum of Contemporary Art
– Sydney Theatre Company
– Green Buildings Alive
– NSW Government’s Energy Efficiency for Small Business
Program
– Results of domestic energy usage by One Million
Women

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Sensing Sydney
• The Project Phases
1. Data collection and provision through the supporting
organizations
2. Call for collaboration: Project submission through the web
site, event at the International Symposium on Electronic Art
Data Slam
3. Winner awarded during Art & About Sydney 2013-Festivals
• Reports on Twitter, Facebook & media
channels of supporting organizations and
events

CC Niall Kenedy, http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034351734@N01/40727794
Digression -
Community management
principles
2a.

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Community - Engagement
1. Define Strategy and Content
2. Build your Community
• Bundle social media activities
• Measure performance and outcome of activities
3. Expose a public issue tracker
4. Support after selling of community build
solutions
Don‘t create your community but
go where birds of feather flock together

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Community - Management
The Success of an Open Government Data portal is
crucially dependent on community management
1. Clear Strategy
2. Measurable goals
3. Honor your community: listen, appreciate, solve,
honor
4. Champion the Champions

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Community Management / Principles
1. Support community self-management
2. Social is for sharing, not selling

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Tools for Community – Management / Focus on Art
1. Find your peers
– Tessitura: Global Art Netzwork
– DeviantART: Social Netzwork for Artists, 27 Millionen
registerd users
2. Community management
– Nationbuilder: Integrated community management-
system with a focus on public administration

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Tools für Community – Management / Focus on Art
3. Support solution building and after sale
– Blackbaud, The Raiser’s Edge: Fundraising und donor-
Management
– Kickstarter: Call for venture capital on creative
projects via crowd funding
– Gittip: spend regularly small amounts of money to
people you aspire

The value of culture
for Vienna
3.

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Tourism in Austria
Tourismus-Satellitenkonto (TSA)
2010 2011 2012
Direkte Wertschöpfungseffekte des Tourismus in Mio. € 15.181 16.637 17.014
Anteil am BIP in % 5,4 5,5 5,5
Gesamtausgaben in- und ausländischer Besucher in Mio. € 29.534 30.586 31.456
Direkte Beschäftigungsverhältnisse im Tourismus (in 1.000) 312 315 -
Quelle: Statistik Austria, http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/tourismus/index.html
abgerufen am 2013-07-17

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Value of Tourism for Vienna
http://www.austriatourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2013e_staedtetourismus-2012.pdf

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Value of Tourism for Vienna
http://www.austriatourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2013e_staedtetourismus-2012.pdf

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Value of Culture for Vienna
Quelle: Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung von Kultur und Creative Industries: Wien im Städtevergleich mit Barcelona, Berlin, London,
Mailand und Paris. Studie i.A MA 27
Österreichische Kulturdokumentation (Eva Häfele et.al, 2005)
http://www.kulturdokumentation.org/download/ci_vergleich_wien.pdf

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Art and Creative Industries
Knapp die Hälfte des Umsatzes der Kreativwirtschaft
entfällt auf die Materialaufwendungen inkl. Fremdleistungen
http://www.creativwirtschaft.at/document/zweiterKW_Bericht_1_.pdf

Identify
Your
Data
4.

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Where is my data? Hints for identification
• Derive data sources from existing
administrative publications
• Annual performance reports
• Internal and public facing applications
– Ask the IT-Department!
• Press releases
• Web site

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This presentation was supported by a grant from the City of Vienna