Table Of ContentBig Data in the Arts
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Theory and Practice
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Big Data in the Arts
and Humanities
Theory and Practice
Edited by
Giovanni Schiuma
Daniela Carlucci
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Title: Big data in the arts and humanities : theory and practice / Giovanni Schiuma,
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Contents
Editors ...........................................................................................................vii
Contributors ...................................................................................................ix
Introduction ..............................................................................................xxiii
SeCtion i U nDeRStAnDinG BiG DAtA
in ARtS AnD HUMAnitieS
1 Literature Review on Big Data: What Do We Know So Far? .................3
SUSANNE DURST, HELIO AISENBERG FERENHOF,
and BAHRAM HOOSHYAR YOUSEFI
2 Toward a Data-Driven World: Challenges and Opportunities
in Arts and Humanities ........................................................................15
DANIELA CARLUCCI, GIOVANNI SCHIUMA,
and FRANCESCO SANTARSIERO
3 “Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width”: Big Data for Quality
and Performance Evaluation in the Arts and Cultural Sector
and the Case of “Culture Metrics” .......................................................27
ABIGAIL GILMORE, KOSTAS ARVANITIS, and ALEXANDRA ALBERT
4 Toward “Big Data” in Museum Provenance ........................................41
JEFFREY SMITH
5 From Big Data to Thick Data: Theory and Practice .............................51
PAUL MOORE
SeCtion ii DiGitAL HUMAnitieS
6 Big Data and the Coming Historical Revolution: From Black
Boxes to Models ....................................................................................65
IAN MILLIGAN and ROBERT WARREN
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7 Use of Big Data in Historical Research ................................................77
RICHARD A. HAWKINS
8 The Study of Networked Content: Five Considerations for Digital
Research in the Humanities .................................................................89
SABINE NIEDERER
9 The English Gothic Novel: Theories and Praxis of Computer-
Based Macroanalysis in Literary Studies ...........................................101
FEDERICA PERAZZINI
SeCtion iii M AnAGinG BiG DAtA WitH AnD
FoR ARtS AnD HUMAnitieS
10 Toward a Data Culture in the Cultural and Creative Industries........117
CIMEON ELLERTON
11 Arts Council England: Using Big Data to Understand the Quality
of Arts and Cultural Work .................................................................129
CARL STEVENS
12 Visualization of Scientific Image Data as Art Data ............................143
JO BERRY
13 Museums, Archives, and Universities—Structuring Future
Connections with Big Data ................................................................159
JANE MILOSCH, MICHAEL J. KURTZ, GREGORY J. JANSEN,
ANDREA HULL, and RICHARD MARCIANO
14 Mobile Technology to Contribute Operatively to the Safeguard
of Cultural Heritage ...........................................................................173
FABRIZIO TERENZIO GIZZI, BENIAMINO MURGANTE,
MARILISA BISCIONE, MARIA DANESE, MARIA SILEO,
MARIA ROSARIA POTENZA, and NICOLA MASINI
15 Artists, Data, and Agency in Smart Cities..........................................189
ROZ STEWART-HALL and MARTHA KING
Index ...........................................................................................................205
Editors
Giovanni Schiuma is professor of innovation management at the University of
Basilicata (Italy) and visiting professor of Arts Based Management at University of
the Arts London. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in
arts and business and has authored or coauthored more than 200 publications on a
range of research topics particularly embracing strategic knowledge asset and intel-
lectual capital management, strategic performance measurement and management,
innovation systems, innovation management, and organizational development.
He is an inspiring speaker and facilitator, with extensive research management
expertise and excellent ability to coordinate complex projects and lead research
teams. Giovanni holds a number of visiting professorships and research fellowship
appointments with renowned international universities, and as a visiting lecturer,
he regularly gives seminars, workshops, and master classes around the world.
Daniela Carlucci is an assistant professor at the University of Basilicata, Italy. She
teaches business management, project management, and project evaluation and
management. Her research interests focus mainly on knowledge assets manage-
ment, performance measurement and management, decision support methods, and
organizational development. She has been a visiting scholar at the Cranfield School
of Management, visiting professor at the Tampere University of Technology, and
visiting researcher at the University of Arts of London. She is author and coauthor of
several publications, including chapters of books, articles, and research reports on a
range of research topics. Her researches have been published in internationally rec-
ognized journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, Production Planning and
Control, Healthcare Management Science, Measuring Business Excellence, Knowledge
Management Research and Practice, and many others. She systematically carries out
referee activities for international scientific journals. She is actively involved in rel-
evant research and consultancy activities as researcher and has worked on research
projects involving national organizations and institutions. Moreover, Daniela is
systematically engaged in teaching activities in public and private institutions.
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Contributors
Alexandra Albert is an ESRC (Economics and Social Research Council)-funded
collaborative doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester and Lancaster
University. Her PhD research examines approaches to citizen social science. She has
just completed an internship with the United Nations Educational Scientific and
Cultural Organization’s Inclusive Policy Lab. Her research interests include par-
ticipatory data initiatives, citizen science, big data, cultural metrics, cultural policy
and inclusive development. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a social researcher for
Arts Council England and The Work Foundation.
Kostas Arvanitis is a senior lecturer in museology at the University of Manchester.
His research interests cross the fields of museology, archaeology, cultural heritage,
and digital media. His recent work has focused on the emergence of a “data cul-
ture” in cultural organizations, digital media professionalization in museums,
heritage activism through digital and social media, and collecting of spontaneous
memorials.
Jo Berry, originally from Lancashire, has studied natural history illustration, illus-
tration, graphic design, and printmaking. Exhibiting regularly and widely through-
out the country and internationally, her work is highly regarded, with pieces in the
Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), Arts Council England (ACE) East Midland
Collections, Nottingham University, and Zeiss, Munich. Her residencies include
the Florence Trust Studios, London; the Natural History Museum, London; and
Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University. Her public art commissions include
Millfield Sculpture Commission, Derbyshire Moorlands, Sheffield Galleries and
Museums Trust, New Shetland Museum & Archives, and Blackpool Illuminations.
In 2005, she completed work at Loughborough University as an advanced
research fellow, where she developed her interest in digital drawing and technol-
ogy and created light drawings using laser cutting, computer software, material
exploration, and light. Since then, she has continued to develop and explore her
understanding of all these processes in the design and production of artwork, light
work and animation for exhibition, commission, and for public art outputs.
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