[game_preservation] KEEP - major European research project on emulation starts

[Andreas Lange]

Dear All,
I am glad to announce, that a major European research project, which is 
related to the preservation of complex digital artefacts, has just 
started. KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) is funded by the 
European Community with 3,15 Mio. Euro will go on from now for three 
years.  Aim of the project is to utilize the preservation tools, which 
are mainly created in the gamer community, for a broader range of users 
and purposes. The impact of the project lies also in the structure of 
the consortium itself: for the first time traditional memory 
institutions like the national libraries of France, Germany and 
Netherlands and researchers with a background in humanitities 
(University of Portsmouth) come together with organisations specialized 
in games resp. their preservation (Computer Game Museum, European Games 
Developer Federation ) within a common research effort in such a scale. 
I am pretty sure, that we will be able to boost the awareness of the 
need to preserve the gaming culture on that basis and of course provide 
concrete preservation tools and interfaces to do the job.

More details about the project can be found here:
http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&id=186

I do this announcement also on behalf of Dan Pinchbeck from the 
University Portsmouth, who is involved in KEEP, too and who subscribed 
the SIC recently.
@ Dan: Now it's time to introduce yourself,
;) Andreas


Andreas Lange
- Direktor -
Computerspiele Museum (im fjs e.V.)
www.computerspielemuseum.de
Marchlewskistr. 27, D-10243 Berlin (Germany)
Tel: +49 (0)30 29049215
Fax: +49 (0)30 2790126