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

[Andreas Lange]

Andrew Armstrong schrieb:

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


Great, thanks!


> 

> 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? :)


Yes, we will have a project homepage, where the progress will be 
available. Next week is the kick-off meeting in Paris, where we will 
talk about it. I let you know, when the site is online.
For the success of the project it will be mandatory, that its existence 
and results are well known, specially into the emulation community. 
Because our aim is, to establish an universal globally accepted 
preservation layer for emulation programms for the next decades, the 
question how the emulation community could be involved in this effort 
seems  crucical for me. It would help very much, if they take up our 
approach and port their emulators to the new virtual machine.
On the other hand it is also very important, that the game industry 
knows about the project. In spite I am aware, that some of the industry 
players still have some problems with emulation, the time is more than 
ripe to bring all together at one table (what is a main focus of this 
SIC anyway). The set up of KEEP, which is carried out by established 
memory institutions, should be strong argument for the industry to 
become an active player in that process.
So for the moment it would be just great to spread the news.

Andreas


> 

> 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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