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 members have preserved and made accessible over 900 web-based art resources totaling over 13 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
- Curate a valuable reference resource that will enhance the art historical record of the 21st century