[game_preservation] Long-Term Storage

[Henry Lowood]

Oh man, can't a guy get any sleep around here ...

I'll try to get something to the group this week -- we have an 
opportunity to apply for a small grant through IGDA.  Stay tuned.

Henry

At 11:58 AM 6/30/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>Simon Carless wrote:

>>I think a far more important question is - what are we preserving 

>>and how are we preserving it?

>This is an important question :) I think the whitepaper this SIG is 

>going to be doing *pokes Henry* should help cover it.

>

>I didn't bring this up, I just wondered about the technical side of 

>preserving digital data (nevermind hard copies of written stuff or 

>anything!). Stop making my topic go off topic, haha! :P

>

>I think it'd be great to bring this up another time (or discuss it 

>now I guess if people want to ;) ). A discussion on how to allow 

>companies to give away more rights to archives or whoever, so it's 

>more useful to have the actual games, would be good too. Dark 

>archives are necessary, but honestly a bit useless, especially for 

>games, like you said since no one can use them!

>

>Andrew

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  Film & Media Collections
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