[game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Of course!

Give me day or two to get the info together and I'll post all the details here

Be great to have a UK/EU get together

Cheers

Dan

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

www.thechineseroom.co.uk


>>> Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> 06/02/09 6:07 PM >>>

Hey, Dan!

Nice introduction :) (same with Phillipe too, just I already talked to 
him :D ).

This sounds interesting - I'm in the UK, I know there might be the other 
odd one or two who haven't introduced themselves here as well (in 
addition to Jo who I just replied to, there might be Tom from the Media 
Museum here, I'm not sure ;) ). They'd need to speak out themselves to 
express interest, but I'm interested in helping. Certainly it seems a 
better venue to talk about things then the Develop conference, or GDC 
for instance - those two rarely have such talks or presentations sadly.

If you need a person who can speak about the SIG, I can help from being 
the blog/wiki editor and doing some of the project work - what we do 
online, our aims, what we've completed, and so forth. I've not got any 
formal training, or done any work preserving items (or even collecting 
them), apart from related work for the Internet Archive, so I'd not be 
likely a good candidate for any technical talk on the "how", or even 
necessarily on the history of any games, unless I do research beforehand :)

If it won't be too much trouble, explaining what the DiGRA is, how the 
conferences go, who attends, and so forth would help me, and I presume 
others who are not as in the know as I. I don't even know if membership 
of the organisation is required, or how much the stuff costs :)

Circulating a proposal is fine. Hopefully people who are interested will 
speak up, although I haven't actively pursued people who join from the 
UK, so if there is anyone you know not on it that would be helping, tell 
them joining the list is free, and contributions voluntary ;)

Thanks for posting this! I hope to meet you sometime either then, or 
before maybe :)

Andrew

Dan Pinchbeck wrote:

> 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

>

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