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Special Collections units across CUL have been archiving the websites of organizations that deposit papers in CUL repositories; this project is not comprehensive for all organizations that deposit papers at CUL.
Hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale
For a number of years, the citizens of New York State have engaged in a rich debate concerning the prospect of hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale. While some of the discussion and events have been captured by news outlets, much of the information is appearing on web sites and social media. Unfortunately, web sites disappear over time and important content can vanish. To ensure that this important trove of information is available to future generations of scholars, the Cornell University Library is creating a permanent archive of the web sites concerned with the issue of hydraulic fracturing in New York.
Digital Art
Many artists and works represented online are indispensable to the history of digital media art; however, web sites are ephemeral and artworks posted on websites and its documentation frequently disappear. The insecurity of access to these materials presents serious obstacles to teaching courses on the history of digital media art. To facilitate future scholarship and classroom teaching, Cornell University Library is preserving and making accessible selected websites identified as important in understanding the history of digital media art. The items in this collection are intended for use in the teaching of Digital Media Art at Cornell University.
New York State Climate Change
New York State is poised to become a leader in planning for and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Climate change science is a broad and diverse field, and sorting through and understanding the amount and detail of scientific information available is a challenge to scientists, engineers, policy makers and practitioners alike. To address these challenges the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), Cornell University, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have teamed up to create the New York Climate Change Science Clearinghouse (NYCCSC). Funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the NYCCSC will be a regional, web-based interface for accessing data, documents, maps and information relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation across New York State. Because the site is meant as a portal for discovery of a broad range of information held and maintained elsewhere, this collection will serve as an archive of the changing content climate change websites relevant to and discoverable via the NYCCSC.In the past few months, CUL has started a pilot to investigate expanding this service to a topical general collecting area. The CUL Collection Development Executive Committee has chosen the area of Hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale for the pilot. If you would like to nominate a website for inclusion in this collection, email cul_webarchivist@cornell.edu
To view the websites currently archived by Cornell, visit our Archive-it page: http://www.archive-it.org/organizations/529
Robots.txt
"Upon examination to preserve and make accessible (URL), I discovered that (URL) is restricted / has important content restricted by a robots.txt exclusion. I plan to ignore this restriction in an attempt to preserve and make accessible (URL).Please let me know if you have any objection to proceeding with ignoring the robots.txt exclusions on (URL)? If I do not hear from you, I will assume that this is not a problem. Please note that ignoring robots.txt exclusions will not preserve any content that is behind authentication / log-in."