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  • Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) Membership Interest

  • The Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) is an art library collaborative that builds and preserves collections of at-risk web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice. CARTA leverages shared infrastructure, expertise, and collecting activities among participating organizations, scaling the extent of web-published, born-digital materials preserved and accessible for art scholarship and research. To date, 41 CARTA participants have preserved and made accessible over 900 web-based art resources totaling over 16 TB of data with continued growth. 


    CARTA member organizations identify and nominate websites within the scope of eight (8) collection topics, including: Art Criticism; Art Fairs and Events; Art Galleries; Art History/Scholarship; Artists Websites; Arts Education; Arts Organizations; and Auction Houses.

     

    Benefits:

    • Internet Archive staff managed crawling of CARTA-eligible content 
    • Coordinated collection and community development at scale - quarterly full-group meetings, ability to join the CARTA advisory board, subcommittees, and working groups, access to the CARTA Slack workspace
    • Quarterly virtual trainings on digital archives topics
    • 10% Discounts on institutional Archive-It subscriptions, Vault (digital preservation), and ARCH (text and data mining) 


    Membership Levels:

    20 nominations/year $2500
    10 nominations/year $1250
    5 nominations/year $625
    3 nominations/year $375

    * additional nominations available

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