The University of Rochester’s Archive-It collections are focused on two categories of websites: 1) pages created by or related to the University community (including areas such as administration, communications, and student life), and 2) a selection of pages that align with the broader collection-development goals of River Campus Libraries’ Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation (including sites that document the history and culture of Rochester, New York). The University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by its Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and Memorial Art Gallery. Located in Rochester, New York, the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. The goals are to promote streamlined access to art reference and research resources, enable new types of scholarly use for art-related materials, and ensure that the art historical record of the 21st century is readily accessible far into the future.įounded in 1850, the University of Rochester is one of the country's top-tier research universities.
Through this collaborative approach, the project leverages shared infrastructure, expertise and collecting activities amongst participating organizations, scaling the extent of web-published, born-digital materials preserved and accessible for art scholarship and research.
#The internet archive archive
The project, formerly called the Consortial Action to Preserve Born-Digital Web-Based Art History & Culture and renamed as Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA), created a collaborative entity of art libraries building collections of archived web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice. The Internet Archive and the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) have embarked on a collaborative project aimed at capturing and preserving at-risk web-based art materials.