LaCogency

LaCogency is a Montreal-based strategy agency specialized in digital discoverability, with a focus on the arts and culture sector. Founded in 2017 by Andrée Harvey and Véronique Marino, the company positions itself at the intersection of cultural innovation and data strategy, helping cultural organizations improve the online visibility of their content and strengthen what it describes as the digital sovereignty of arts and culture. The agency's service offering spans several connected areas. Under cultural innovation, it provides expertise in technological innovation, data governance, digital literacy, and organizational transformation, along with ideation, co-creation, support, and knowledge transfer. Under discoverability, it works on digital discoverability and digital transformation, including digital discoverability plans, feasibility studies, strategic monitoring, and market analysis. Under data-centred strategy, it addresses data pooling and interoperability, covering data modelling and semantization, data visualization, metadata publication, and data analysis. A flagship initiative is Culturepédia.ca, described by the agency as a social utility trust of cultural data for Quebec and the Canadian Francophonie. The project aims to pool and valorize cultural data, which LaCogency says helps reinforce the identity and heritage of local communities. The agency also works on strategies to improve the online visibility of local cultural content, promoting artists and cultural initiatives, and collaborates with institutions such as BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec), SODEC, and other cultural organizations. LaCogency presents its work as technology for positive impact, concentrating on structuring and strategic digital discoverability projects. Its market is primarily Quebec and the broader Canadian Francophonie, where it serves arts and culture organizations seeking to make their content more findable and to make better strategic use of their data.

LaCogency was founded in 2017 in Montreal by Andrée Harvey and Véronique Marino. From its base in Montreal, the agency built its practice around digital discoverability — the set of strategies and technical approaches that make cultural content easier to find online — and around the strategic use of cultural data. The agency describes its mission as putting innovation at the service of the discoverability and digital sovereignty of arts and culture. Its work is organized around three broad areas: cultural innovation (technological innovation, data governance, digital literacy, organizational transformation, ideation, co-creation, support, and knowledge transfer); discoverability (digital discoverability and digital transformation, including discoverability plans, feasibility studies, strategic monitoring, and market analysis); and data-centred strategy (data pooling and interoperability, data modelling and semantization, data visualization, metadata publication, and data analysis). A defining project in the agency's history is Culturepédia.ca, which LaCogency developed as a social utility trust of cultural data for Quebec and the Canadian Francophonie. The initiative is intended to pool and valorize cultural data, which the agency says helps strengthen the identity and heritage of local communities. Alongside this, LaCogency works on strategies to improve the online visibility of local cultural content, promoting artists and cultural initiatives. The agency collaborates with cultural and governmental institutions, including BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec), SODEC, and other cultural organizations. Through these partnerships and projects, LaCogency has positioned itself as a specialist in structuring, strategic digital discoverability work for the arts and culture sector in Quebec and the broader Canadian Francophonie.

• 2017

  LaCogency is founded in Montreal by Andrée Harvey and Véronique Marino.

• The agency develops Culturepédia.ca, a social utility trust of cultural data for Quebec and the Canadian Francophonie.

• LaCogency collaborates with institutions such as BAnQ, SODEC, and other cultural organizations.

Technology for positive impact; a strategy agency focused on structuring and strategic digital discoverability projects for arts and culture.

• Culturepédia.ca

  A social utility trust of cultural data for Quebec and the Canadian Francophonie, developed by LaCogency to pool and valorize cultural data.

• Digital discoverability plans

  Strategic plans to improve the online visibility of cultural content.

• Feasibility studies

  Studies assessing the viability of digital discoverability and data projects.

• Strategic monitoring and market analysis

  Ongoing monitoring and analysis to inform cultural organizations' digital strategies.

• Data modelling and semantization

  Structuring and giving meaning to cultural data for interoperability and reuse.

• Data visualization

  Visual representations of cultural data to support decision-making.

• Metadata publication

  Publishing metadata to improve the discoverability of cultural content.

• Data analysis

  Analysis of cultural data to support strategy and valorization.

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