[game_preservation] Library of Congress funds project for game preservation

[Henry Lowood]

All,

just back form a short trip (Blizzcon), I find that Library of 
Congress has sent out the official news release announcing the 
Preserving Creative America Program here:

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-156.html

This is an omnibus release covering all the projects funded in this 
impressive new program (over $2 million in all, a nice portion of 
which went to the games project).

The games project is called "Preserving Virtual Worlds" and includes 
historical games (cf. our Digital Game Canon), electronic literature, 
and virtual worlds.   It is the project listed under University of 
Illinois, as prime contractor.  Stanford, Maryland, and Rochester are 
sub-contractors.

So, now we can talk about this project!   I hope to have my feet on 
the ground tomorrow and will put together some information and a 
preliminary call for voluntary participation.  The actual work starts 
Jan. 2008 and will end Dec. 2009, but there is a lot in the hopper to 
work on before January -- e.g., preparation for GDC and other events. 
Please feel free to spread the news far and wide.

Also, nice to see that Andrew has got some conversation going.  It's 
great to have somebody working on the wiki!  (Andrew, I haven't 
forgotten that I owe you the Digital Game Canon presentations.)

Henry

Henry Lowood
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
      Germanic Collections; Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004 USA
lowood at stanford.edu; 650-723-4602