The internet archive, partnering with new york art resources consortium, will create a cooperative, sustainable program that brings together art libraries and museums across the united states to scale…

The Internet Archive, in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, will receive $266,553 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to create a cooperative program for archiving and providing access to web-published art and cultural heritage collections. From September 2021 to August 2023, the project will work with art libraries and museums across the United States to coordinate the curation and archiving of primary source materials that have migrated from analog to digital formats online. This will expand discovery of and research access to these archives through a unified portal of member collection content. The National Leadership Grants program supports projects that address critical needs in museums and libraries and advance practices to strengthen services for the American public.

The internet archive, partnering with new york art resources consortium, will create a cooperative, sustainable program that brings together art libraries and museums across the united states to scale capacity to coordinate curation and archiving of web-published primary source art and cultural heritage collections. The migration of valuable primary source material from analog to born-digital formats, disseminated primarily via the web, has shifted methodologies around collection creation and preservation for cultural heritage organizations, as well as research methodologies undertaken by art history scholars. This migration has also created opportunities for collaboration and shared curation services among cultural heritage organizations, along with unified discovery, access, and research support for the scholarly community. The project will expand discovery and use of these archives through the creation of a unified access portal of content from member collections.