data analytics – Public Value of Open Cultural Data

Vacancy: Film and TV data analytics fellow

Indrek Ibrus — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:27:43 +0000

Tallinn University’s Baltic Film, Media and Arts School is hiring a research fellow (postdoc) to work on film and TV industry public value creation processes using data science or network science methods. The fellow will be part of our research project Public Value of Open Cultural Data, but also the soon to be launched Horizon Europe project titled CresCine. The latter will focus on cross-sectional analysis of film industry data from multiple international databases aimed that discovering trends affecting film production and consumption in Europe. This work will be carried out together with Europe’s leading film industry institutions and universities. The fellow will be also closely collaborating with our Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab team.
Salary and other conditions are internationally competitive, please contact prof. Indrek Ibrus (indrek.ibrus[at]tlu.ee) for details. If agreed, the initial 2-year contract period can be extended by at least one year. More info about the position can be found here.

We are collaborating with Marché du Film

Indrek Ibrus — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:15:38 +0000

It is time to announce another collaboration and a case study of our project – Marché du Film, one of the biggest film markets in the world, an essential part of the Cannes Film Festival.

Marché du Film is operating Cinando, one of the biggest digital platforms for film projects. The platform is designed to facilitate global film industry operations including rights sales and investments. It also operates as a business-to-business VOD platform.

Tallinn University and Marché du Film have agreed to collaborate to analyse the contents of the Cinando database – on how to use its data to make sense of the broader processes in film markets and how could Cinando data be used to generate more public value to filmmakers and societies around the world.

The researchers part of the “Public Value of Open Cultural Data” project will analyse Cinando data to understand how various cultural policy means in different parts of the world produce public value, how film trade affects global cultural dynamics and how to use and publish Cinando data in publicly beneficial ways. We will consult Marché du Film on improving Cinando and on alternative data publishing strategies to be used in the future.

To learn more about the project “Public Value of Open Cultural Data” please read the project description here.

Collaboration with the Estonian Public Broadcaster (ERR) is under way

Indrek Ibrus — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:50:12 +0000

Our team collaborates now also with ERR where we aim to analyse ERR broadcasting data of several decades and develop ways to publish some of it as open data. The aim is to research ways to improve the datasets and prepare them for further analysis by the public. The initiative is based on the idea that public service media could generate public value in new ways. Public value is seen as something that contributes to the functioning of the public sphere and national innovation systems.

We will work with ERR’s archive data, more specifically with the metadata of ERR’s radio and TV shows. TLU’s Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN) team also takes actively part in this collaboration. Mainly, their contribution will lie in finding potential new ways to use the existing data, to find connections and create visualisations to map the data and its connections. ERR relevant datasets are very rich, including data on production circumstances, makers, guests, topics and other characteristics of the content.

Secondly, as ERR is a public broadcaster and aims to open its data to the public, the process should result in protocols and principles that guide ERR in the future to provide its data to the public in an accessible and comprehensible manner. Relatedly, interactive visualisation options could be developed for users to easily interact with the data. This idea stems from the open knowledge and open governance thinking where there is push to publish information to the public in order to increase transparency and also accountability to the public.

User access to the data can also mean new services that are developed from the published data as it can be easily collected and analysed. For ERR and its partners such open data provision, visualisations it will enable and new knowledge learned could lead to further innovation as data may facilitate new perceptions on media work and value creation motivating changes in the working principles in the broader media industry. It is also a case that could motivate different institutions – public broadcaster, academia, government institutions – to come together and analyse and improve how data is used for the purpose of potential future innovations relying on this type of open data.

The collaboration runs until the end of 2021. In addition to the current project, potential future collaborations and further common interests are being discussed and identified in the process