[game_preservation] Long-Term Storage

[Simon Carless]

I think a far more important question is - what are we preserving and how
are we preserving it? I already started using the Internet Archive's data
systems (which are fairly robust, and which I'm sure we could use for legal
projects) for the CLASP project, which is now on hiatus.

But the issue was - it's just no fun and a tremendous amount of work 'dark
archiving' classic games into sealed vaults for 75 years (until copyright
runs out - potentially longer!), especially when there's no real ability to
display them anywhere.

As Henry Lowood has remarked before a few times on here - it's probably the
participatory history (interviewing creators) and physical ephemera around
the making of the game that is as - or more - important than the finished
product itself, which I have a strong reason to believe will be preserved by
hobbyists and fans - in digital/emulated form, quite often - far beyond any
organized or centralized attempt to do so.

My 2c,
Simon.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>
wrote:


> Jim Leonard wrote:

>

>> I work with these technologies as part of my Day Job(tm) so I can offer

>> some insight, but it is that same Day Job(tm) that has preventing me from

>> commenting thus far.  I'll try to do so tonight.

>>

> Cool, thanks Jim! :-D

>

> I've been thinking and I'll probably look into contacting some UK archives,

> if anything relevant even exists, over summer. I'm sure USA versions are

> much bigger in any case, but it'd be interesting to visit one (and if

> information could be gleamed it's always worth putting it in the SIG's wiki

> of course). I'm sure they're all different, but there is bound to be a lot

> of common ground, and it might also help future whitepaper work if any

> guidelines were set down on how to archive.

>

>

> Andrew

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