APIs & Open Data

Digital Archives and Data – Listen to the Arts Council England podcast

Avatar of Hannah Rudman By Hannah Rudman
4 October 2012

John Wilson discusses how arts organisations are opening up their archives, collections and data with studio guests Bill Thompson, Head of Partnership Development, BBC Archives and AmbITion Champion; Drew Hemment, Founder and CEO of Future Everything; and Dr Paul Gerhardt, Director of Archives for Creativity. Including what arts organisations need to consider when digitising their [...]

Posted in: Advanced, AmbITion Scotland (2011-2013), APIs & Open Data, Dance, Digital Archiving, Digital Strategy

Festivalslab – a final show case of great innovation projects

Avatar of Hannah Rudman By Hannah Rudman
31 July 2012

This summer marks two years since the inception of the festivalslab project. To celebrate, The Festivals Lab team have compiled a showreel document of the projects, which highlights what worked and what didn’t. The content and knowledge sharing partnership that AmbITion Scotland has held with Festivalslab has enabled the learnings of the festivals to be [...]

Posted in: Accessibility, Advanced, AmbITion Scotland (2009-2011), AmbITion Scotland (2011-2013), APIs & Open Data, Crowdsourcing, Digital Strategy, Festivals, Gaming, Open source

You too can Make:IT:Happen!

Avatar of Hannah Rudman By Hannah Rudman
4 July 2012

This is Lesley Anne Rose, Creative Producer of Stellar Quines who, following their AmbITion Scotland experience have really made IT happen for their theatre company by grasping the opportunities afforded by digital technologies. The picture also shows Hamish Allison, Managing Director at Freakworks at the Freakworks Studios in Edinburgh with whom Stellar Quines are working [...]

Posted in: Accessibility, Advanced, AmbITion Scotland (2011-2013), Analytics, Tracking & SEO, APIs & Open Data, Apps & Mobile, Beginner, Client Relationship Management, Content Management Systems, Crowdsourcing, Digital Archiving, Digital Audio & Video, Digital Strategy, E-Publishing, Education & Outreach, Environmental Sustainability, Fundraising, Gaming, Intellectual Property & Contracts, Intermediate, Marketing, Open source, Policy, Project Management, Social Media & Communities, Streaming, web/simulcasting, Ticketing, Websites, Hosting, Cloud

Case Study in Innovation: The Edinburgh Festivals’ API

Avatar of Hannah Rudman By Hannah Rudman
14 May 2012

AmbITion Scotland present this Case Study in Innovation: a story of the Edinburgh Summer Festivals’ API (Application Programming Interface)

Posted in: Advanced, AmbITion Scotland (2011-2013), APIs & Open Data, Apps & Mobile, Festivals, Intermediate 1 Comment »

How To… Create Your Own Innovation Lab

Avatar of AmbITion By AmbITion
6 January 2012

Hot off the press from Festivalslab especially for AmbITion Scotland is a manifesto and How To… Guide explaining how to create your own innovation lab/build in innovation practices to your organisation. Festivalslab shares the last 2 years’ learning from the Festivals Edinburgh group on how to create a ripe environment for innovation in your organisation. [...]

Posted in: Advanced, AmbITion Scotland (2011-2013), APIs & Open Data, Dance, Festivals, Heritage, Literature, Music, Screen, Theatre, Visual Arts

New thinking about innovation

Avatar of AmbITion By AmbITion
16 December 2011

Innovation funding needs to meet the specific needs of cultural organisations and that isn’t always about creating something radical and new. In a country with a deficit as bad as it was in 1945 after Britain had endured six years of world war, it is not surprising that innovation is seen as an essential component [...]

Posted in: APIs & Open Data, Digital Strategy, Policy

Make It Count Google Analytics Workshop

Avatar of AmbITion By AmbITion
16 November 2011

AmbITion Scotland are excited to announce a partnership with Culture24 and National Museums Scotland on an intensive Google Analytics workshop in the new year. It is specifically designed to support the cultural sector better understand how their online visitors use their websites. Learn more and register now. Date: 7 February 2012 Venue: National Museum of [...]

Posted in: Analytics, Tracking & SEO, APIs & Open Data, Events, Websites, Hosting, Cloud

Case Study in Innovation: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Avatar of AmbITion By AmbITion
20 October 2011

Following its initiation at Culture Hack Scotland, this case study video maps the development of a hack into a fully operational mobile site launched by Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer.

Posted in: APIs & Open Data, Apps & Mobile, Digital Strategy, E-Publishing, Festivals, Literature

New digital ways of navigating the massive Edinburgh Festivals’ listings delight!

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15 August 2011

With over 2,500 shows this summer, and the collective of different festival brochures weighing in at c. 5kg, I think new service Fringe Master may well help those struggling with the choice/language/quality assurance barrier!This concierge/personal shopper approach is being trialled at the Edinburgh Festivals this summer. Fringe Master sorts you out with an itinerary for [...]

Posted in: APIs & Open Data, Apps & Mobile, Festivals, Marketing, Websites, Hosting, Cloud

Box Office Blues? (Arts Professional article by Beth Aplin, AmbITion consultant)

Avatar of AmbITion By AmbITion
12 July 2011

Beth Aplin reveals eight things every chief executive should know about their ticketing system Are you getting the very best out of your ticketing system? With such an expensive and business critical piece of software it is obviously worthwhile putting some effort into maximising your return on investment. Ask yourself the following questions, and you [...]

Posted in: APIs & Open Data, Marketing, Ticketing, Websites, Hosting, Cloud

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