Editing Cornell University Library (section)

====Preservation====
[[File:Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York- Comstock Memorial Library, Entomology, bought with the income of a fund given by the students of John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology, 1915, book plate, Ex Libris (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Book plate, Comstock Memorial Library, 1915]]
Because of the fragility and the complexity of the artworks,<ref>About the fragility of digital media see:{{cite web|title=Preservation 101: Media Preservation|url=http://www.imappreserve.org/pres_101/index.html#priorities|website=Independent Media Art Preservation (IMAP)|publisher=IMAP c/o Lehman College|access-date= June 18, 2015}} and {{cite web|title=EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art:Preservation|url=http://www.eai.org/resourceguide/preservation.html|website=Electronic Art Intermix|publisher=Electronic Arts Intermix|access-date= June 18, 2015}}</ref> most of which are [[born-digital]] and many of which are [[interactive]], the Archive focuses on building archival strategies that [[New media art preservation|endure the continuous access]] to all this fragile material. The Goldsen Archive is one of the six international digital art archives dedicated to Preservation and Documentation Strategies; other similar archives are [[Ars Electronica]], Tate Intermedia, FACT, computerfinearts.com (which has its repository in Goldsen Archive) and Rhizome Artbase.<ref>{{cite web|title=Digital Art History Databases: Preservation and Documentation Strategies- Archives.|url=http://paulhertz.net/research/digarthistdb.html|website=Ingo Studio: Paul Hertz|access-date=June 18, 2015|archive-date=June 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616064458/https://paulhertz.net/research/digarthistdb.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, the Archive has signed the International Declaration "Media Art Needs Global Networked Organization and Support", sponsored by Media Art History. Org.<ref>{{cite web|title=Media art needs global networked Organisation & support – International Declaration|url=http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration|website=Media Art History|access-date=June 18, 2015|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620051737/http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Goldsen Archive has completed a [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]- funded preservation initiative that aims to make access to complex interactive and digital-born media artworks simple and more reliable, which will allow these artworks to be used and viewed on modern computers.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march14/03inbrief.html |last1=Casad |first1=Madeleine Imogene |title=Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects |magazine=D-Lib Magazine |date=March–April 2014 |volume=20 |issue=4 |doi=10.1045/march2014-contents |access-date=April 24, 2022 |doi-access=free}}</ref>