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