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

[Andrew Armstrong]

A website sounds good, I'll look forward to it :) we'll help with 
promotion in the area as much as the IGDA can, every little helps no doubt.

Andrew

Andreas Lange wrote:

> 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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