arts mapping - summary

A proposal for the research and development of a system allowing users to gain valuable insights from complex sets of data. A user-matched ‘data landscape’ will evoke the navigation and foraging skills inherent in human cognition through a ‘landscape’ metaphor as a front end to large bodies of data. The aim is to enable satisfactory information retrieval, comparison and evaluation at far shorter times than the traditional ‘desktop’ computer interface allows.

The development of a generic model will follow a specific application of this idea to the mapping of disability arts activity and audiences in the East midlands region. The region is of specific interest because it has no central city and, as yet, no comprehensive body of either qualitative or quantitative data in this special interest area.

potential users

strategy and policy:
funders, decision-makers, planners, event organisers, voluntary sector; for example: regional authorities, arts boards, arts working groups;
arts providers:
disabled and non-disabled artists, arts workers, venues, event hosts, groups;
audiences and participants:
existing and new audiences and participants, regional visitors.

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