[game_preservation] The Library of Congress project, upcoming plans
Simon Carless
simon at archive.org
Mon Sep 10 13:33:27 EDT 2007
Speaking as a CMP employee (GDC organizer), I can say that we're very
supportive of the Digital Canon, obviously, so I imagine there will be no
problem getting that accepted. And yes, the change of time for GDC was
booking-related and not intended to be repeated :)
Simon
[Publisher, Game Developer/Gamasutra.]
On 9/10/07, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> First, about the early GDC, it's a pain for us too in terms of the
> academic calendar. I'm positive this had to do with the difficulty of
> booking the venue in San Francisco. I'm probably a minority of one (and
> possibly jaded by living near San Francisco), but I prefer the San Jose
> venue to the spread-out San Francisco affair. So, I'm a grognard when it
> comes to this.
>
> About the project, it's not a requirement that partners be in the United
> States, as far as I know. We hope to attract interest in Japan and Europe,
> for starters. Funds can't flow to those countries, but that's not really an
> option anyway in terms of the budget. Again, I would say if anyone is
> interested in helping with the project, just get in touch and we can go from
> there.
>
> It turns out the IGDA-GDC relationship is a little different this year,
> but it looks like a roundtable is certain. We'll have to apply for both the
> Digital Canon event (i.e., offer it in one of the tracks other than IGDA)
> and the workshop.
>
> State of Play. Have a look here: http://www.nyls.edu/pages/2396.asp and
> click on the archives button below right. The time capsules from SoP I, II,
> and III are interesting.
>
> Henry
>
>
> At 09:35 AM 9/9/2007, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>
> 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.pdfso 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
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> Stanford University Libraries
> Stanford CA 94305-6004
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