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Data To Power Prototype is a new experimental mapping solution that provides an interface for automatic data aggregation from cultural institutions to visualize their global outreach and influence in different countries. It offers a new data analysis tool for universal use across institutions to demonstrate their impact in different geolocations and to provide an inductive research platform for strategic development and growth.
The prototype builds on the award-winning pilot project Museum Soft Power Map, developed in collaboration with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Watch a 2 min video demo about ACMI Soft Power Map. The new solution significantly advances the pilot application by applying new approaches to data collection, analysis and visualization.
Data mining and aggregation, tapping into open access data
Developing a mapping app with interface for a dynamic data update
Developing a timeline
Employing machine learning and AI to analyze patterns of cultural engagement
To learn more about the critical digital praxis research on developing Data to Power geo-visusalisation system and its implications for cultural institutions and strategic relation management, please consult the list of academic publications:
Global circulation of collections and exhibitions in immersive environments
Communicating to audiences in the global media environment
Digital GLAM and Urban Soft Power
Bring together academics, diplomacy experts and GLAM representatives
Explore and advance current thinking of the role of digital tools, data-driven approaches and AI to strengthen the delivery of soft power programs
Develop policy-oriented partnerships between academics and practitioners through a series of educational online sessions
Advance digital diplomacy research and scholarship by modelling, testing and designing a new prototype solution Data To Power that can measure, map, predict and visualize soft power
How to sustain visibility and leverage digital assets in a saturated informational environment?
How to conduct trustworthy cultural relations and exchanges in a post-truth environment?
How to use new technologies to leverage and augment cultural appeal?
Natalia Grincheva
Lead Project Investigator
LASALLE College of the Arts
University of the Arts
Singapore
Dr Natalia Grincheva is a Programme Leader in Arts Management at University of the Arts Singapore and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne. She is an internationally recognized expert in innovative forms and global trends in contemporary museology, digital diplomacy, and international cultural relations. Her most recent publications are two monographs: Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Routledge: 2020) and Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy (Routledge: 2019). Currently she is working on a new co-authored monograph, Geopolitics of Digital Heritage, forthcoming in 2023 with Cambridge University Press. Dr Grincheva's professional engagements include her dedicated work for the International Fund for Cultural Diversity at UNESCO (2011), International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (2011–2015) as well as service for the international Cultural Research Network (CRN) (2018–2020).
Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He also serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and as a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He has authored and edited six books, including Countering Online Propaganda and Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy (Routledge: 2019) – listed in the 20 Best New International Relations Books To Read In 2019 - and Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Routledge: 2015). He has served as a consultant for Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the U.K., Germany, Spain, Israel, Lithuania, UAE, Armenia, Romania as well as for the UN and the Commonwealth.
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate and a Master's degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants from The Arts and Humanities Research Council; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; The American Friends of the Warburg Institute and Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. Her portfolio includes scholarly publications, teaching appointments, international conferences, curated exhibitions, audio and video podcasts.
Toyah Horman works as a researcher in the areas of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Diplomacy within the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. Obtaining a Masters in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies from Deakin University in 2011, she has been involved in a variety of projects at a number of Australian Institutions, including Museum Victoria, Heritage Victoria and the National Film and Sound Archive. Toyah has co-authored publications focused on the Kelabit Highlands Museum Project, developed and coordinated the Leverhulme Trust funded WARMAP project website, and is currently producing the UNESCO funded War Heritage podcast series.
Jasmine Christian has experience in marketing for local and international theatre companies including Sing’theatre Productions, ABA Productions, KidsFest!, and Faust International Youth Theatre Singapore. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing with a Minor in Communications from the Singapore University of Social Sciences and is pursuing a Diploma in Music Theatre at the London College of Music. With her interest in consumer behavior and human interactions, she has a newfound interest in acting and storytelling. Fusing her love and experience in singing and music, she is continuously honing her performing skills and entering the industry as a musical theatre performer.
