[game_preservation] The Library of Congress project, upcoming plans

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey Henry,

Reading all the information, the project sounds good. Looks some really 
good aims, and hopefully some form of accessible archive will come from 
it - so I hope it goes well from January! I can't help directly, but let 
the group know if we can do any specific task that doesn't involve 
living in the USA and being an academic archiver :-)

I put the PDF you attached to your email on the IGDA wiki here: 
http://www.igda.org/wiki/images/8/81/About_preserving_virtual_worlds_2.pdf 
so anyone not on this list could obtain it.

Its a shame the GDC 2008 is earlier then GDC 2007, means if I was able 
to go (maybe should apply for the IGDA's Scholarships), it'd be a week 
out of my University term (although saying that, GDC 2007 would have 
been too, if I was at University at the time), but I would so love to go 
(I'm not likely going to get praise from you, a University professor, 
for wanting to miss part of my University year though :) ).

So it is great to know you'll be trying to get some roundtables and 
another Digital Game Canon session. The workshop, I presume, is not 
something I'd get anything out of since I'm not the intended audience, 
but if it helped the IP holders even in the slightest and urged them to 
help with donations, and on how they should store their own archives, 
it'd likely be highly worthwhile (especially with the UT Videogame 
archive starting, giving another location for a physical archive 
collection that needs donations).

Also, what is the State of Play event? Searching the net only turned up 
dates for State of Play 2007, and no real info on what it entailed :)

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> All,

>

> Well, as you know, the Library of Congress has funded the project, 

> called "Preserving Virtual Worlds," to be undertaken by Stanford, U. 

> Maryland, U. Illinois, and Rochester Inst. of Technology.   It will 

> start on Jan. 1, 2008 and end at the end of 2009, a two-year project.  

> There are three foci: e-literature (historically, closely related to 

> text games), digital games, and virtual worlds.  But rather than get 

> into all of that in e-mail, I'm attaching a description of the 

> project; there are no restrictions on distributing this. So please 

> have a look and let's discuss it.

>

> A few points relating to the project and some launch plans:

>

> 1. There are many project partners and there is room for more.  I'm 

> happy to speak with anyone who feels they can contribute substantially 

> to the project goals.  We have several options in terms of how we 

> would recognize such efforts.

>

> 2. There will be some launch events just before and during GDC next 

> year.   It's possible you heard it here first, but right now it looks 

> like we will be hosting State of Play VI the weekend before GDC on the 

> Stanford campus.   Our plan is that issues relating to the project 

> will be in the program, e.g., legal issues around preservation of 

> virtual world content.  Also, I will propose through GDC that we have 

> a couple of roundtables and (hopefully, this will be approved) a 

> Digital Game Canon session to add another ten games to the list.  

> Last, and this is still in flux a bit, we might try to offer a 

> workshop on game preservation that speaks more to industry-related 

> education, outreach, and interests.  Let me know if you have ideas on 

> that or would like to help put a proposal together.

>

> Please, feel free to discuss the project; I'm happy to answer 

> questions.  It's out in the open now, no turning back, we're really 

> going to do it!

>

> Henry

>

> Henry Lowood, Ph.D.

> Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections

> Curator for Germanic Collections; Film & Media Collections

> HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall

> Stanford University Libraries

> Stanford CA 94305-6004

> 650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

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