Boiling the Ocean - or?
There was an excellent discussion on standards in the Bergen meeting - but the key challenge I see is that behind the headline, there's an ocean of complexities exacerbated by an unbelievably complex cultural ecosystem, where funders and the different arts and culture sectors have different needs and priorities.
So before we agree to make an inventory or form a cultural standards body, we should start with the minimum agreed core policies, then the associated data points needed to support these policies, which in itself will dictate the data standards associated with these.
Here are headline areas which I think will help break up the Standards challenge in to its constituent parts:
Macro & Micro Policy priorities
The adoption of standards are a prerequisite for the effective implementation of policies. However, the cultural sector represents a broad and complex ecosystem of cultural organizations and funders and equally a broad…