Hollie Lubbock is a UX/visual designer at Bureau for Visual Affairs in London. This document discusses how design can help communicate data and cases where cultural organizations are using open data. It provides examples of museums like the V&A and British Museum that have released collection data. The document also highlights projects by Hollie Lubbock using open data from cultural organizations to create engaging data visualizations and experiences for users.

1. Hollie Lubbock
UX / Visual designer
at Bureau for Visual Affairs in London
@hollielubbock
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2. Overview
1. How design can help communicate data
2. Who in the cultural sector is using open data
3. Case studies: using UI to help users

3. Section 1:
Why I think design is awesome
when it comes to data

9. Can infographics change lives?

13. Invisible Airs, YoHa
ODI data as culture

15. What should we be trying to
achieve with design?

16. What should we be trying to
achieve with design?
• Clear simple presentations

17. What should we be trying to
achieve with design?
• Clear simple presentations
• Allow users to make up their own mind

18. What should we be trying to
achieve with design?
• Clear simple presentations
• Allow users to make up their own mind
• Inspire users to create something with the data

19. Section 2
The cultural sector

20. The cultural sector is a big
adopter of open data and
semantic web technologies.

21. So, who is doing what?

22. V&A released collections data
http://www.vam.ac.uk/api/

23. British museum collections data
collection.britishmuseum.org

24. Europeana
http://labs.europeana.eu/api/

25. Tate Modern collections data
https://github.com/tategallery/
collection

26. Great collection of resources
here: http://museum-api.
pbworks.com/w/page/
21933420/Museum
%C2%A0APIs

27. How have these been
presented to the public?

28. How have these been
presented to the public?
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• They drive the collections searches on their
own sites.

29. How have these been
presented to the public?
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• They drive the collections searches on their
own sites.
• They are moving towards 5* open data

30. How have these been
presented to the public?
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• They drive the collections searches on their
own sites.
• They are moving towards 5* open data
• Using schema.org style systems to add value to
their data.

31. http://artmeme.herokuapp.com/

34. http://opencontext.org/

41. Dimensions
of art:
@jradavenport

42. http://www.timhodson.com/
ancient-correspondence/

44. What’s next?

45. Common thesauri being
developed

46. Developing APIs

47. Hackdays

48. Requirement of
government funding?

49. In the pipeline at the Barbican

50. Why are museums
doing this?

51. Section 3
Stuff I’ve made

52. A ramble through old work, new
work & work in progress

53. Data as a pulse of relevance
or trends
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54. Royal Shakespeare Company
http://tinyurl.com/m2yz5hp
Bureau for Visual Affairs

58. Using open data as an
enhancement

59. V&A museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
the other media

65. Researchspace
Bureau for Visual Affairs

66. A collection of collections

67. Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische
Yale Centre for British Art
British Museum

68. http://www.researchspace.org/

69. Visualisation challenges

70. How would you like to search?

82. Open as a core value

83. Southbank Centre
http://
digital.southbankcentre.co.uk/
Bureau for Visual Affairs

84. Open platform
Open community
Open content
Open vocabulary
Open data
Open process

85. robgethers/status/496573818841083904/

89. http://
digital.southbankcentre.co.uk/
wire-framing-the-new-sc-website/

92. Follow our progress here:
http://
digital.southbankcentre.co.uk/

93. I think we should be helping
people engage with open
data and data in general as
much as possible.

94. It just being available isn’t
enough, it needs to be engaging
and accessible to people.
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I think we can go along way
towards this by using design.

95. Thanks for listening
@hollielubbock
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Any Questions?