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Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) and Culture Counts

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) used Culture Counts as part of the Arts Queensland 2016 pilot to capture data about two events, the CIAF Fashion Performance (Birrimbi Dulgu Bajal) as part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival in March 2016, and...

Arts Queensland offers subsidised Culture Counts memberships

Following two successful pilots that saw 28 arts and cultural organisations trial the platform, the Queensland government has approved Culture Counts as their preferred supplier of cultural evaluation services. This arrangement allows all Queensland arts organisations to utilise Culture Counts...

Digital Inclusion in Remote Communities

Many remote communities lack access to digital services. Telstra’s Digital Inclusion Strategy aims to provide all Australians with access to digital infrastructure and improve their ability to use digital products and services. This involves providing mobile base stations and broadband in remote...

The Difference Between Simplistic and Specific

In 2011, we embarked upon a quest to consider how best to factor conversations about quality into decisions about value. We asked ourselves: “Can culture be measured?” The origin of this question was the result of mutually frustrating exchanges with...

Strength in Numbers

“The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy There seems to be some fears floating around the arts sector about quantitative measurement of audience experience....

Objectivity in the Arts

Objectivity means the state or quality of being true even outside of a subject’s individual biases, interpretations, feelings, and imagining. There is a difference between objectivity (the ‘true’ answer) and multi-point subjectivity (a set of opinions on a common issue)....

Kage

A case study from the KAGE, a participating organisation from the Creative Victoria 2016 pilot. With very special thanks to KAGE for sharing their results and insight for this case study. KAGE was one of 23 organisations that participated in...

A peer assessor experience

Bonnie Melrose from Museums & Galleries Qld provides her experience of being a peer assessor for the Rockhampton Art Gallery. Thanks to Bonnie Melrose from Museums & Galleries Queensland for providing her personal experience as a peer assessor for Rockhampton Art Gallery....

Derby Museums

A case study from the Derby Museums as a part of the Quality Metrics National Test in the UK. With very special thanks to Derby Museums for their results and insight for this case study. Derby Museums completed three evaluations...