Jane Alexander, Chief Digital Information Officer at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Talk given at the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Conference, October 3, 2019
Watch the video in slide 54 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9DG4XZSH98
Jane Alexander describes the digitization process and back-end development that made awe inspiring digital initiatives possible at CMA, and how the digital innovation team is using data analytics to understand the impact of these projects on the visitor experience.
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Digitization, Big Data, and the Visitor Journey
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Digitization, Big Data, and the
Visitor Journey
Jane Alexander, Cleveland Museum of Art
Smithsonian Institution Digitization Conference
October 2-3, 2019
@janecalexander
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Renovation
• Galleries closed on
rotation, 7 years
• Collection
deinstalled,
• reinstalled
• Opportunity for
digitization
Now:
• 90% digitized
• FY 2021 – 100%
digitized
The road to digitization
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"Cleveland Museum of Art creates
transformative experiences through art,
for the benefit of all the people,
forever."
CMA Mission
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"This is a logical and exciting outgrowth of the
CMA’s inclusive mission “to create transformative
experiences through art, for the benefit of all the
people forever.” The time is right to firmly bring
our mission into the 21st century."
Dr. William Griswold, Director
Cleveland Museum of Art
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This year,
more than 850,000 people visited
The Cleveland Museum of Art
...and we collected a lot of data
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Use interactive games and
interpretation to provide
visitors the toolsets to look
closer, dive deeper, and feel
comfortable exploring the
physical collection
24. Individual attendance at the museum increased by 31%
The attendance of families increased by 29%.
But – were the learning goals
being met?
The Results of Gallery One 2013
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2015 Gallery One Evaluation Report
• Data collecting occurred in
2013, but the study was not
internally published until 2015
• By time report was published,
many changes had already
taken place
Gallery One and ArtLens Evaluation Report by:
Elizabeth Bolander, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Meghan Stockdale, Research Analyst.
January 2015
26. In 2018, the CMA’s
Research and Evaluation
team and Rockman
concluded a two-year project
to examine new ways of
measuring the impact of
digital interactives in art
museums. They used
ARTLENS Gallery as a Case
Study
Bolander, E.,Ridenour, H.,Quimby, C. 2019. Art Museums and Technology: Developing New Metrics
to Measure Visitor Engagement. Project funding was generously provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts ArtWorks program.
27. Findings from Evaluation 2019
Bolander, E.,Ridenour, H.,Quimby, C. 2019. Art Museums and Technology: Developing New Metrics to Measure Visitor Engagement. Project funding was generously
provided by the National Endowment for the Arts ArtWorks program.
36% of the participants
spent time in ARTLENS
Gallery
People who visited
ARTLENS Gallery
demonstrated greater
gains in self-reported level
of art understanding and
knowledge
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Now:
Implemented an automated
counting system in 10 areas
of the Museum:
• Each entrance to the museum
• Exhibition Galleries
• Rotating Galleries
System has an API that can be
used for custom reporting
75,000 difference
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Where Are People Going?
How Long Are They Staying There?
Where Do They Go Next?
What Are They Learning?
We Still Want To Know:
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Analyzing Visitor Experience with
Meraki Wireless Access Points
Meraki allows us to collect data from any wireless antenna hitting our wifi
access points, whether they’ve logged onto our wireless network or not.
33. YES, we have “Big Data”
• 105 wireless access points
• 1-2 million rows of data per day
• 0.4 GB per day just for search indexes
• A system of 8 separate cloud services
(plus Tableau) to process it all
34. But there were some challenges
• Noisy data
• Translating devices to visitors
• Building trust
• Facilitating adoption
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• 177k visitors did not
visit ARTLENS
• Spent 2.2 hours on
average in museum
These visitors go to few
spaces overall
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• 82k visitors visited
ARTLENS
• They spent 12 minutes
longer at the museum These visitors
interact with
almost 4 times
the number of
spaces!
48. • 37k visitors spent more than 5
minutes in ARTLENS
• They spent on average 36
minutes more at the museum!
These visitors
interact with
more spaces, for
even longer
periods of time
They’re likely
spending more
money at the café!
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...visitors who spend at least 5 minutes in
ARTLENS Gallery are spending
approximately 35 minutes longer in the
museum compared to those who do not
visit ARTLENS Gallery.
50. And now we can ask questions like this
... Does the selection of artworks in
ARTLENS impact gallery visits?
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Open Access brings CMA’s
mission “to create transformative
experiences through art, for the
benefit of all the people, forever”
into the digital age
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Through this initiative, the CMA’s
collection is a part of the lives of
our users for the broadest
possibilities of artistic creation,
business innovation, education, and
scholarly practice.
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"After achieving record
attendance of nearly
865,000 in the fiscal year
ended June 30, the
Cleveland Museum of Art is
well on its way toward
achieving its goal of serving
1 million visitors a year"
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Dr. William Griswold, Director of
The Cleveland Museum of Art
How do we show the connection
between Open Access and
physical attendance
and engagement ?