[game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs?

[Henry Lowood]

With regard to the data/metadata of the site itself, it probably would 
be best to make sure that a handful of institutions have copies, 
assuming the owners will be willing and able to provide the data.   NB.  
In the case of Stanford and I'm sure the other institutions, there will 
need to be a legal instrument that governs the transfer.  That's the 
sort of thing that can be dealt with when we have contact information 
and know that there is a willingness to do this.

Henry

Jim Leonard wrote:

> Dan Pinchbeck wrote:

>> We may well be able to host if we can get hold of it. I'll check that 

>> out with my boss, but it's close enough to the work we are doing to 

>> make a case for it, if we can get an idea of the scale of hosting 

>> needed (and given we are an HE institution, there would be hoops to 

>> jump through to keep our legal people happy that everything there was 

>> legit)

>

> If you refuse all of the downloadable files, the entirety of the site 

> is legal.  The editorial content and human-picked "games like this 

> one" is the real content to save.

>

> The files themselves are floating around in various communities -- 

> that's not a problem, if access to the files is needed.  Not legal, 

> but available nonetheless.

>

> HOTU hosted other sites, including The Mac Garden, which was like HOTU 

> but for classic Mac games.  Hopefully those can be saved as well, 

> since there has been very little effort to preserve classic mac games 

> and mac game information.


-- 
Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
 Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood 
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