Paper presented by Simon Tanner at MCN 2014, Dallas. In session named Museums and Big Data: Measuring and Evaluating Trends, 22nd November 2014. Session chaired by Trilce Navarrete.

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VALUE & IMPACT
FOR MUSEUMS
Simon Tanner
Director of Digital Consulting
Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
Twitter: @SimonTanner
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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/us-art.html
Charging Models & Rights Strategy for Images in Museums

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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship

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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
The Balanced Value Impact Model

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I love Rijks
We have 125,000 art works
available in high resolution.
Anything you want, you can do with it...
So now we can say “I love Rijks”,
the Rijksmuseum was a very dull, traditional museum and
now we can say proudly “I love Rijks”...
So if you think about impact then maybe love is the
biggest impact. Peter Gorgels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW17d-OQsIs

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7. www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
@SimonTanner

8. “the measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital
resource that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities
of the community”
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
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The Case for Impact
We are more effective and efficient in delivering change and
tangible benefits (Internal Impact);
Our organisation is gaining strategic advantage through the
innovation inherent in this digital activity (Innovation Impact);
We are delivering a strong economic benefit to our community
that demonstrate the worth and value of our endeavours in
clear monetary terms (Economic Impact); and
the community has been changed by the resource in beneficial
ways that can be clearly identified (Social Impact)

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11. Assigning Values –Welcome Library
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Perspective Value Driver
Social Utility + Community
Innovation Utility + Community
Internal Education + Inheritance/Bequest
Economic Utility
This demonstrates a strategic emphasis towards measuring active use and community
benefit from the Wellcome Library Codebreakers project. They have a desire to measure
value for money but not to over emphasise the economic element compared to other
priorities. They also want to measure how they have grown in skills and capacities and
delivered on institutional mission - thus, the focus on education and inheritance/bequest
for the Internal Perspective.

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Stakeholders & Digital Ecosystems
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Is the value
in the wine, the glass or the drinking?

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VALUE & IMPACT
FOR MUSEUMS
Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Thanks to www.alicemaggs.co.uk for illustrations
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