[game_preservation] University of Texas now into MMO Preservation

[Henry Lowood]

Yes, that's correct. I'm on the advisory board. Also, Megan attended 
the kickoff meeting for the NDIIPP project.  In fact, it wouldn't 
surprise me if Megan is on this list.

Henry

At 02:49 PM 8/8/2008, Vowell, Zachary W wrote:

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>Hey Andrew, I mentioned this here!:

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><http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2008-June/000416.html>http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2008-June/000416.html

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>I'm not sure if she knows about the SIG, but since we'll be working 

>with her some, I can definitely clue her in.  Also, I think Henry's 

>on her project's advisory board.  For the most part, I think she 

>wants to gather data (i.e., interviews) on how MMO developers create 

>games, and the artifacts that are produced along the way.

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>Also, I know she'll be running a blog that tracks the project's 

>development, so I can let the list know when that goes up.

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>Zach Vowell

>Archivist, UT Videogame Archive

>Center for American History

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>On 8/8/08 4:39 PM, "Andrew Armstrong" <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

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>No news to those who read GameSetWatch, but interesting none the less

>and worth bringing up here:

><http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2008/08/university_of_t.html>http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2008/08/university_of_t.html

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>I wonder if the person going to run it, Megan Winget, even knows about

>our small group, or about the Library of Congress efforts on Virtual

>World preservation. Austin is a good place to start though, I'd admit

>that much, and the amount of money isn't exactly tiny (although I have

>no idea what they intend to do!)

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>Looks interesting, I hope something good comes out of it :)

>

>Andrew

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Henry Lowood
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      Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library
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