[game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors Information

[Andrew Armstrong]

Sorry, it was Back-Bytes. ;)

The information should be aimed at helping historians and 
preservationists. The goal is to facilitate the necessary flow of 
information if historians can't find it themselves - collectors are 
knowledgeable historians in their own domains. Knowing what they do, how 
they do it, and how to contact them/get their help is a good idea.

At least that'd be my aim for it. There is no "one stop shop" for 
communities of collectors, a news driven website, and of course, there 
is absolutely no group I know of dedicated to facilitating communication 
between them (at least in an information capacity). These people are 
some of the most dedicated people to preserving things (even if only for 
their own collections sometimes), so well worth noting them somewhere, 
if we don't directly do anything right now :)

Thanks Stuart!

Andrew

Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

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> Andrew,

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> I might be willing to help out with this as I am a collector and I 

> also know several other collectors. However, I think it's important to 

> get some of those concerns answered first so that we know what the 

> goals are. Specifically:

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> - Who is the information aimed at?

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> - What information should it be?

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> The answer to the first question should drive the second question. I 

> guess the third question that underlies the other two is:

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> - What is the goal of gathering this information?

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> Any thoughts on these questions from the group?

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> Thanks,

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> Stuart

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> PS -- Where is Back-Bytes? I've never heard of it, and a Google search 

> didn't turn up anything.

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> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org 

> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrew 

> Armstrong

> *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2009 8:10 PM

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] Project Discussion: Collectors 

> Information

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> First project bump. I want to see if any new members have any ideas or 

> thoughts on this topic, please read below to see my original post.

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> I am going to do field research into this when I visit Back-Bytes, a 

> retro gaming event in March. While I'm forming my own questions, and 

> will be asking several people about the hobby, and about how it is 

> relevant to historians etc., *I'd welcome any input for questions or 

> areas that I should ask about*, I am not a collector and have really 

> next to nothing but "common knowledge" of what they do :)

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> Hopefully this will, at the very least, gain some links to 

> communities, forums, websites, magazines and relevant media or 

> coverage of it all.

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> I'll also be reporting on the event for the SIG with photos and notes 

> ;) there should be some interesting stuff from Ocean and Jon Hare, 

> among others, and I'll actually be trying some of the games systems 

> I've never touched before I bet, as well as hopefully grabbing one of 

> the computer museums I've got noted on our contributions page for a 

> chat too. I'll try and get this up before GDC, with possible varying 

> degrees of success. :)

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> Andrew

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> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

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> This is coming on from our previous discussion over spring cleaning 

> the SIG.

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> *Collectors Information*

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Collectors

> Status: /On Hold/

> Currently lead by: /No one. /

> Short description: /A set of resource pages on the area of videogame 

> collectors. When complete, will hold information on the reasons behind 

> it, the communities that are based on it, and who gets involved in the 

> work. This will be aimed at people interested in the area for whatever 

> reason (such as tracking information not held in public archives or 

> online) rather then for collectors themselves./

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> Concerns raised previously:

> - What information should it be

> - Who should be contacted to get the information

> - Who is the information aimed at

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> This needs someone to run it. Someone who basically can collect the 

> information and update the wiki with it. There are plenty of reasons I 

> can't do it very well, the main one being is I am not a collector and 

> barely venture into the area much. I am willing to do some of the 

> legwork but a collector who knows where to find information, who to 

> contact and interview, what information would be relevant to an 

> archivist, historian or developer, and so on is required.

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> If you want to take lead on this, it shouldn't be much work - I'm 

> looking for more depth then Wikipedia, but less then a book on the 

> subject. Some "rough guide to videogame collectors and their hobby" 

> would suffice.

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> I know some information was already raised, and if I am left with 

> doing this I'll follow some of it up and possibly get someone not on 

> the SIG list to do this project partially (at least providing the 

> information to me).

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> Andrew

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