When you record something about your career, you can attach the document that
supports it. ARTup reads that document and compares it with what you have typed,
so that you can see whether the evidence and the claim agree before anyone else
relies on them.
This check is an analysis offered to help you. It is not a verification. On
ARTup a fact counts as verified only through a paid self-declaration or a
time stamp of the document (see below).
Planned: the paid self-declaration.
Anyone adding to their record. It matters most to artists, whose score depends
on the record being sound, and to galleries and institutions who are asked to
stand behind what has been entered about them.
Upload the document you already have. A catalogue page, a certificate, a
diploma, an invoice, a letter. It can be a proper digital document, or a
photograph or scan of a paper one. You do not have to retype anything for it to
be readable.
See what matched and what did not. The check works detail by detail rather
than giving a single pass or fail. For each thing you entered, you are told
whether the document supports it, contradicts it, or simply does not mention it.
Correct and try again. A mismatch is usually a typo or a date in a different
format, not a problem with the document. You fix the entry, or attach a better
document, and check again.
Get the easy things checked automatically. Some details can be checked
without reading a document at all: whether a book identifier is a real one,
whether a link still works, whether a place actually exists where you said it
did. Those checks run on their own, and report what they found ranked by how
much it matters, rather than as a bare pass or fail.
Keep your documents yours. What you upload stays in your own area. You can
look through your documents and delete anything you no longer want held. No
other account can open them; only the platform's administrators can see them,
to look after the service.
What it is. Time-stamping is the paid step that turns a document you have
uploaded into a validated one. It costs 1,00 EUR per document, and the price is
set by the platform. When the time stamp is done, the document is marked as
validated, and so is the record it proves, if you link one. Today the time
stamp is not recorded on a blockchain.
One time stamp per document. Each document is time-stamped once. Asking
again for the same document with the same payment changes nothing and does not
charge you twice.
Linking the record afterwards. You can time-stamp a document first and tell
ARTup later which record it proves. To do that, use the same payment that
covered the time stamp, and the record becomes validated too. A record that is
already linked to the document is never replaced by another. A time stamp
proves one record.
Only your own records. You can link a document only to a record of yours.
If the payment is not confirmed. The time stamp is only applied once the
payment is confirmed as complete. If it is still being processed, failed, or
was made by another account, you are told the payment is not confirmed and
nothing is validated. You can try again once the payment has gone through. A
payment covers one service, once: a payment already used for a time stamp
cannot be used again for another document or for a certification.
Contradictions at the moment of the time stamp. If the data you are
time-stamping still contradicts other data, ARTup tells you what happens next.
See "Your Record, Mentions and Referrals".
An upload comes back as matching fully, matching in part, or not matching, and
you are told which details fall into which. Nothing is deleted and nothing is
punished. A detail the document does not support is marked as such and stays
visible, so you and anyone reading your record can see which parts are backed
by a document and which are only declared. A check that could not be completed,
because a website was down for instance, is reported as unfinished rather than
as a failure.
You may also see the platform's own opinion on whether something has been
categorised sensibly, sitting alongside an entry. That is an observation offered
to you, nothing more. It does not change your score by itself and it does not
overrule what you have said.
A record other people can rely on, and a way of finding your own mistakes before
somebody else does. The documents stay attached, so the evidence travels with
the claim.