Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections (Routledge Research in Digital Humanities)

This volume presents a timely and original study of the meaning, uses, and impact of cultural data today.Working across critical and creative strands of inquiry, the book situates cultural data in the context of contemporary social, environmental, and political challenges such as the future of the arts and climate change. Drawing on fields ranging from sociology and art history through to computer science and digital heritage, Cultural Data expands the possibilities for the study of arts and culture using computational methods at a critical moment for both national and global discussions about the future of digitisation and cultural data.Combining computer-assisted quantitative research with and qualitative and theoretical approaches, this book examines historical trends, demographic politics, and data cultures alongside experimental data visualisations that build distinctive narratives for the arts and creative industries.Through using and manipulating the open-source interoperability