[game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

[Henry Lowood]

Andreas,

That's right.  I was just going to invite make sure that if anyone is 
attending, they know about the roundtable (and come to it!), as well as 
the possibility of booking a room for a special get-together on any 
topic.  A propos, I will book at least one special meeting, because a 
couple of discussion topics have come up.  But I'm waiting for the 
conference schedule to come out, so I can plan accordingly.

Henry

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Just to mention, GDC is very developer orientated. It's not academic 

> in most respects, and as I've noted, a percentage nearing 0 is based 

> on history and preservation (this year it'll likely only be our 

> roundtable, give or take maybe an unannounced panel or presentation by 

> some older figure in history like last year).

>

> There isn't such thing as covering travel costs from anyone I'm afraid 

> :( You'll have to get a ticket and cover your own costs, sadly. 

> Certainly there is no IGDA money (I'm funding my own travel, hotel, 

> and costs over there :) ). Speakers get a pass to enter free, but no 

> other costs considered.

>

> There's no absolute* need* to come - it would be nice, but it is short 

> notice (the late sign up date is VERY soon!) and may be money wasted 

> if you can't get much out of the event. I think Henry was more asking 

> if anyone was already planning on going or was planning now the 

> project was announced :)

>

> I'd love to see someone there representing it, but balance the money 

> it'd cost if you haven't considered it yet.

>

> Andrew

>

> Andreas Lange wrote:

>> Dear Henry,

>> indeed this a good idea. The schedule is a little bit tight but if it 

>> makes sense it should be considered seriously. How would it be 

>> possible to make it happen?  I guess that KEEP could be introduced 

>> within the roundtable meeting of the SIC, which you chair. Is there a 

>> budget from the GDC site for covering e.g. travel costs?

>> After the kick-off meeting at Thursday/ Friday we will see clearer, 

>> what travel efforts we must expect during KEEP. Being also partly 

>> responsible for dissemination of KEEP, I can yield your suggestion in 

>> the discussion. The Pro seems to me that it is good in principle, to 

>> inform potential players so early as possible, to be able to include 

>> their suggestions in the project as early as possible. The Con might 

>> be, that it is just to early for us and it might make more sense to 

>> participate at GDC next year, when we know more and maybe have a more 

>> concrete approach to the industry.

>> @ Dan: What do you think?

>> Andreas

>>

>>

>> Henry Lowood schrieb:

>>> Dan,

>>>

>>> do you think anyone from KEEP will be attending GDC this year?

>>>

>>> Henry

>>>

>>> 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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