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Culture Online: Standards

Answer

Each Culture Online project was set a number of appropriate targets in its delivery contract with partner organisations. I am arranging for extracts from the relevant contracts to be deposited in the House Libraries.Progress towards achieving the targets for each project is set out as follows. The statistics provide interim figures. Although Culture Online closed in March 2007, a number of the projects are still running and visitors are still accessing the websites.(a) ArtisanCam"January 2005 to January 2007: 192,169 visits to the website."(b) City Heritage Guides"September 2005 to January 2007: 1,062,140 visits to the website."(c) Every Object Tells a Story"January 2005 to February 2007: 915,599 visits to the website.""Project outreach work involved over 2,140 people. A video booth travelled around England, visiting shopping centres, libraries and bus stations to enable people to capture their object and story in a short video."(d) Film Street"April 2006 to February 2007: 156,166 visits to the website."(e) Headline History"May 2005 to February 2007: 349,040 visits to the website."(f) Icons"January 2006-January 2007: 1,521,017 visits to the website."(g) MadforArts"Visits to the website were unrecorded""1,000 people were involved in project outreach work""The films made as part of the MadforArts project had an audience of 2 million on Channel Five and the Community Channel."(h) My Art Space"January 2006 to February 2007: 19,402 visits to the website."(i) Origination"January 2005 to October 2006: 49,961 visits to the website""Over 7,000 young people took part in schools website building competition""300 people took part in the national programme of workshops encouraging hard-to-reach audiences to build personal websites."(j) Plant Cultures"Visits to the website were unrecorded""An average of 1,000,000 unique visitors in the first 18 months, inspired over 20,000 new visitors to gardens and museums in London, Leicester, Liverpool and Bradford""500 people were involved in project outreach work."(k) Playground Fun"August 2005-February 2007: 78,243 visits to the website""2,500 youngsters took part in the Playground Fun day at the Museum of Childhood in London (August 2005), playing games and contributing to the website."(l) Rosetta Requiem"October 2005 to February 2007: 24,788 visits to the website""Worked with 177 hospice users to create music and films with them""An audience of over 2 million for national radio and TV coverage""22,000 copies of ““We Laughed”” sold, reaching number 11 in the UK singles chart."(m) Soundjunction"October 2005 to January 2007: 175,152 visits to the website""100 people were involved in project outreach work."(n) Stagework"January 2004 to February 2007: 488,520 visits to the website""7,400 downloads recorded up to February 2007."(o) The Dark"February 2005 to January 2006: 39,717 visits to the website""More than 35,000 visits to the 3D soundscape installation."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

474 c1732-3W; 198363

Session

2007-08

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2008-1027
Monday, 21 April 2008
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Culture Online
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Standards Culture Online

Link

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