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. This includes the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives and Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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.
To view the websites currently archived by Cornell, visit our Archive-it page: http://www.archive-it.org/organizations/529