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Resources

Useful resources for organisations trying to use the Culture Data Observatory.

Data Maturity Assessment

Organisations starting to work with data will benefit from a view of their current level of organisational data maturity, and plan actionable steps to make changes. The Open Data Institute Data Maturity Assessment Tool can help with this.

360Giving

Helps UK funders publish their grants data in an open, standardised way, and supports people to understand and use this data to improve charitable giving.

CSVLint

CSVLint helps you to check that your CSV file is readable. And you can use it to check whether it contains the columns and types of values that it should.

Eventbrite API v3

Access-controlled API to query data held on Eventbrite related to events, attendees, venues and other event characteristics like categories, organisers and pricing.

North East Combined Authority

The North East Combined Authority (NECA) is the seven local authority areas of County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland.

North East Evidence Hub

The North East Evidence Hub brings together data about the region and provides tools to help residents, businesses, education establishments and policy makers to make use of this data in a simple and accessible way.

Open Contracting

The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) enables disclosure of data and documents at all stages of the contracting process by defining a common data model. The UK government has adopted this standard for public sector contracts.

OpenAudience

Tool to help understand your audience using open data, based on postcode.

Publisher's Guide to Open Data Licensing

What does it mean to license data? What licence should you use? How can you indicate the licence that a dataset is available under? This guide answers these questions.

Reuser’s Guide to Open Data Licensing

All you need to know about open data licensing, as a reuser of data

About Culture Connect

As more powers are handed down to local areas through English devolution, we need robust and ready data to:

  • better understand culture engagement in the region
  • make informed decisions about funding
  • highlight barriers to success in the culture sector
  • inform policy making so it accurately represents areas of growth and need

Find out more

The Culture Connect Data Observatory by Open innovations for Culture Connect is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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