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

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yeah, brilliant news. I'll put it on the blog and site projects listings.

Is there any way the SIG or members can help? (This goes for other 
projects remember guys, bring them up if you think we can help). It's a 
big project (3 years! millions of euros!) as well, wow. Do you know if 
anything will be available online (about progress perhaps), or perhaps 
would the work be made available to worldwide organisations to provide 
access at least to academics and historians? :)

Since I don't own old systems, this certainly is interesting to me 
anyway, if it leads to some good game and computer emulation.

Andrew

Vowell, Zach wrote:

>

> Andreas,

> This is fantastic news, very excited to see such a major initiative 

> going in this direction.  A professor here at the Univ. of Texas has 

> often championed the idea of harnessing game emulation technology for 

> wider digital preservation uses, and it's great to see it actually 

> happening.  And I think you're absolutely right about this project's 

> opportunity to spread awareness of game preservation to a larger audience.

>

> Best of luck and I look forward to hearing more as things progress.

>

>

> -- 

> Zach Vowell

> Archivist, UT Videogame Archive

> The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

> 512.495.4405

> http://www.utvideogamearchive.org

>

>

>

> On 2/5/09 9:45 AM, "Andreas Lange" <lange at digitalgamearchive.org> wrote:

>

>     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=News=02:00:00=186

>     <http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&id=186>

>     <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

>

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