[game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Hi everyone,

Andreas has already let you all know about the KEEP project - I'm part of the UK team working on the project, focusing on metadata standards and front-end.

One of the things we've talked about is how to launch the project within the games research community and there may be a really good opportunity for both this, and highlighting preservation work, coming up this year. The DiGRA conference is being hosted by Brunel University in London in September, and the call for papers, panels, etc is currently up. I think it would be a really prescient idea to suggest a preservation panel for the conference. We'd look for 3 -4 presentations within this, one of which would be KEEP and the state of emulation in relation to games. It would be great to also have another of these being directly about the work of the SIG and it's key members, leaving two papers open for whatever the SIG thinks is most appropriate. It would also be a great opportunity to get together those of us who can't make GDC and to look at how we can draw in the research community as a whole into this part of the field. 

To put it in context, there wasn't a panel like this at the 2007 conference, and only a single paper dealing with preservation at all at the 2005 conference, so it's long overdue.

Any thoughts would be very welcomed. I'm happy to put together a draft proposal and circulate it to the SIG to formalise things. The deadline for proposal is 6th March

All the best, 

Dan

Dan Pinchbeck
Advanced Games Research Group
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth, UK

www.thechineseroom.co.uk