Cultural & Creative Sectors and Industries Observatory

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Cultural & Creative Sectors and Industries Data Observatory

The creative and cultural sectors and industries are mainly made of networks of freelancers and microenterprises, with very few medium-sized companies. Their economic performance, problems, and innovation capacities are hidden. Our open collaboration to create this data observatory is committed to change this. Relying on modern data science, the re-use of open governmental data, open science data, and novel harmonized data collection we aim to fill in the gaps left in the official statistics of the European Union.

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We believe that introducing Open Policy Analysis standards with open data, open-source software and research automation can help better understanding how creative people and their enterprises and institutions add value to the European economy, how they create jobs, innovate, and increase the well-being of a diverse European society. Our collaboration is open for individuals, citizens scientists. Institutions can join as partners to the Consortium that maintains our observatory.

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Services

Automated Data Services

[Professional Data Processing](/data/open-gov/#is-there-value-left-in-open-data)Uncut diamonds need to be polished. Data is only potential information, raw and unprocessed. — Professional Data Processing
Uncut diamonds need to be polished. Data is only potential information, raw and unprocessed.

[Data-as-Service](/services/data-as-service/)Reusable, easy-to-import, interoperable, always fresh data in tidy formats with a modern API. — Data-as-Service

Reusable, easy-to-import, interoperable, always fresh data in tidy formats with a modern API.

Metadata

Adding metadata exponentially increases the value of data. Did somebody already adjust old data to conform to constantly changing geographic boundaries? What are some practical ways of combining satellite sensory data with my organization’s records? And do I have the right to do so? Metadata logs the history of data, providing instructions on how to reuse it, also setting the terms of use. We automate this labor-intensive process applying the FAIR data concept.

Data Curation

We create high value key business and policy evaluation indicators. Scientific proofs require the combination of correctly matching, formatting, and verifying controlled pieces of data. Our data comes from verified and legal sources, with information about use rights and a complete history. You can always take a look at the processing code, too. We do not deal in blood diamonds.

Data Processing

We create high value key business and policy evaluation indicators. Scientific proofs require the combination of correctly matching, formatting, and verifying controlled pieces of data. Our data comes from verified and legal sources, with information about use rights and a complete history. You can always take a look at the processing code, too. We do not deal in blood diamonds.

Data-as-Service

We provide our clients with simple datasets, databases, harmonized survey data, and various other rich data applications; we provide them with continuous access to high-quality, re-processed, re-usable public sector and scientific data.

Data

API to our data, our sources, how we process and validate it, how we increase its quality.

Survey Harmonization

Ex post survey harmonization is in a way a passive form of pooling research funding because you can utilize information from surveying that were made on somebody else’s expense. The aim of ex ante survey harmonization is to maximize the value from future retrospective harmonization; in a way, it is an active form of pooling research funding, because you benefit from money spent on related open governmental and open science survey programs.

Jul 5, 2021

Data API

Get data from the Creative Cultural Sectors and Industries Data Observatory via our API

Daniel Antal, Botond Vitos

Last updated on Jul 8, 2021

Metadata

Uncut diamonds need to be cut, polished, and you have to make sure that they come from a legal source.

Daniel Antal

Last updated on Jul 8, 2021

Open Data

Many countries in the world allow access to a vast array of information, such as documents under freedom of information requests, statistics, datasets. In the European Union, most taxpayer financed data in government administration, transport, or meteorology, for example, can be usually re-used. More and more scientific output is expected to be reviewable and reproducible, which implies open access.

Last updated on Jun 25, 2021

Data Pillars

See what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how you can contribute.

Economy

Employment & Value Added Contribution to the European Economy

Innovation

Working with sub-national data, on the level of provinces, states, regions, metropolitan areas brings far more insights into climate policies and potential actions than working with national data. The United States is a country, and so is Malta.

Innovation

Think globally, act locally - create indicators, analyze data below national level.

Contributors of the Cultural and Creative Data Observatory

Join our open collaboration team as a data curator, developer or business developer! More about contributing: Automated Observatory Contributors’ Handbook.

developers

Daniel Antal

Developer of open-source statistical software

Kasia Kulma

Contributor, data science and software engineering

Leo Lahti

rOpenGov coordinator

Botond Vitos

Data scientists and developer

Andrés García Molina, PhD

Data Scientist & Ethnomusicologist

New Developers

Future co-developer

Pyry Kantanen

R package testing and data curation.

data curators

Caterina Sganga

Data curator for cultural diversity and data pooling

Ioanna Lapatoura

Data curator for Fashion industry data, metadata, NFT and blockchain

service development team

Annette Wong

Contributor, digital strategist and product marketer

Marie Zhořová

Service Development Manager

Robin Nagy

Mentor, Contributor, Business Development

institutional partners

rOpenGov

rOpenGov network

Datagraver

Data dissemination partner

Institute for Information Law

Scientific Project Leader

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Scientific research partner—open data and copyright.

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New Curators

Future curator

New Developers

Future co-developer

Observatory Business Associate

Future Team Member

Milestones

Green Deal Open Collaboration

Reprex and collaborators

Mar 2021 – Present the Hague, Netherlands

International Open Data Day 2021:

We organized the only event in the Netherlands
Decided to start an open collaboration on music and climate change.

Trustworthy AI PPP

NLAIC + EU AI Alliance

Feb 2021 – Present the Netherlands

Joined the Dutch & the European AI PPPs.

Open-Source Software

Our peer-reviewed, open source statistical software packages

We believe that transparency is the key to the highest data quality. We use only open source software. We open up the critical elements of our software for peer-review.

We use open-source software, there is no vendor lock-in.
Our data products go through many, automated (unit) tests, replacing countless error-prone human validation working hours.
The critical elements of our code go through external validation and peer-review by computational statisticians and data scientists.

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Daniel Antal

Last updated on Jun 28, 2021

retroharmonize R package for survey harmonization

The goal of retroharmonize is to facilitate retrospective (ex-post) harmonization of data, particularly survey data, in a reproducible manner.

Daniel Antal

Jun 3, 2020

regions R package to create sub-national statistical indicators

regions currently takes care of 20,000 sub-divisional boundary changes in Europe since 1999.

Daniel Antal

Jun 3, 2020

iotables R package for working with symmetric input-output tables

The goal of iotables is to make allow a programmatic acces to the symmetric input-output tables of Eurostat. It creates multipliers, calculates direct, indirect and induced effects from European SIOT tables.

Open-Source Software

Our peer-reviewed, open source statistical software packages

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Conversations with users, contributors and volunteers.

Reprex Open Data Day 2021

Open Data Day 2021 focusing on environmental, sustainability and public spending data mapping.

Mar 6, 2021 3:30 PM — 5:00 PM Online

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Data Pillars

Contributors of the Cultural and Creative Data Observatory

developers

Developer of open-source statistical software

Contributor, data science and software engineering

rOpenGov coordinator

Data scientists and developer

Data Scientist & Ethnomusicologist

Future co-developer

R package testing and data curation.

data curators

Data curator for cultural diversity and data pooling

Data curator for Fashion industry data, metadata, NFT and blockchain

service development team

Contributor, digital strategist and product marketer

Service Development Manager

Mentor, Contributor, Business Development

institutional partners

rOpenGov network

Data dissemination partner

Scientific Project Leader

Scientific research partner—open data and copyright.

join us

Future curator

Future co-developer

Future Team Member

Milestones

Open-Source Software

Open-Source Software

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Contact

Recent Publications