CUL Web Archiving
Since 2012, Cornell University Library (CUL) has been archiving websites in an attempt to preserve these ephemeral resources for future scholarship and research. To accomplish this, CUL has used the tool Archive-It, a service of the Internet Archive; the CUL collection can be viewed at: http://www.archive-it.org/organizations/529. To inquire further about this project, email cul_webarchivist@cornell.edu
Areas being Archived:
Cornell University websites:
Cornell University Library (CUL) has investigated web archiving as a tool to continue our role in capturing the intellectual output of Cornell University, primarily through archiving the http://cornell.edu domain.
We are working to identify and archive the websites of Cornell entities who publish their content outside of the cornell.edu domain, which include the Cornell University Cooperative Extensions and over 300 student organizations. If you are a member of a Cornell-affiliated organization with a website without "cornell.edu" in the URL, please let us know; email cul_webarchivist@cornell.edu
Special Collections organizations:
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
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
In examining http://courchel.net/
to archive for digital art teaching and scholarship, I discovered that your site is restricted by a robots.txt exclusion. I would like to ignore this restriction in an attempt to preserve and make accessible (URL). Do 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.