Accounting for quality: arts evaluation, public value and the case of “culture counts” Gilmore, Abigail, Glow, Hilary and Johanson, Katya 2017, Accounting for quality: arts evaluation, public value and the case of “culture counts”, Cultural Trends, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 282-294, doi: 10.1080/09548963.2017.1382761. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads johanson-accountingforquality-2017.pdf Published version application/pdf 194.93KB 74 Title Accounting for quality: arts evaluation, public value and the case of “culture counts” Author(s) Gilmore, Abigail Glow, Hilary orcid.org/0000-0001-9388-8317 Johanson, Katya orcid.org/0000-0001-7332-4645 Journal name Cultural Trends Volume number 26 Issue number 4 Start page 282 End page 294 Total pages 13 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2017-11 ISSN 0954-8963 Keyword(s) quality arts policy evaluation public value big data Summary Arts policy has a longstanding relationship with the concept of “quality” and the ways in which organisations measure, evaluate and account for it. Culture Counts, an evaluation system and digital platform, compiles data from standardised evaluation surveys of different stakeholder groups – organisations, audiences, critics, funders and peers – and provides the means to compare and triangulate data in an accessible format. As a result, it claims to provide a more effective, democratic tool for quality measurement of art, which demonstrates the public value of funding [Department of Culture and the Arts, & Knell, J. (2014). Public value measurement framework: Measuring the quality of the arts. Perth: Department of Culture and the Arts.]. Through qualitative research with two consortia of organisations involved in Culture Counts pilot projects in Manchester, England and Victoria, Australia, we explore these claims, comparing the reception and promotion of the system in both countries and considering its potential incorporation into policy assessment frameworks and adoption within arts organisations’ existing evaluation capacities. Language eng DOI 10.1080/09548963.2017.1382761 Field of Research 190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting) 19 Studies In Creative Arts And Writing 20 Language, Communication And Culture HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2017, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30104916 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 16 Nov 2017, 17:41:12 EST Thu, 16 Nov 2017, 17:43:46 EST Fri, 17 Nov 2017, 04:04:42 EST Thu, 07 Dec 2017, 05:03:50 EST Fri, 08 Dec 2017, 08:15:19 EST Fri, 08 Dec 2017, 08:20:31 EST Fri, 08 Dec 2017, 08:25:05 EST Mon, 11 Dec 2017, 08:22:20 EST Sat, 16 Dec 2017, 01:32:58 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 2 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 105 Abstract Views, 75 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 16 Nov 2017, 17:43:46 EST

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