Duxbury - Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects
Duxbury, N. (2005) Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects. In Andrew, C., Gattinger, M., Jeannotte, M. S., & Straw, W. (Eds.), Accounting for Culture : Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship. Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press.
In general, indicators are defined as “bits of information that summarize the characteristics of systems or highlight what is happening in a system,” which can “simplify complex phenomena” and enable a community to “gauge the general status of a system to inform action. The choice and development of indicators in each project is informed by a wide range of factors, including: the overarching goals and guiding framework of the project, the values and aspirations of the project participants in the community, and developments in the larger field(s) of indicators and related research areas.
Nancy Duxbury “Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects”