[game_preservation] Project Discussion: Digital Game Canon

[Andrew Armstrong]

This is coming on from our previous discussion over spring cleaning the SIG.

*Digital Game Canon*
http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Digital_Game_Canon
Status: /On Hold/
Currently lead by: Henry Lowood.
Short description: /Started for a GDC 2007 session. This project 
recognizes the importance of digital game culture. The Canon provides a 
starting-point for the difficult task of preserving its history. This 
project will need to be restarted in some capacity in the future./

Concerns raised previously:
- Basis for choosing 10 games a year.
- How to get it restarted without a GDC session
- Who are the people choosing the games, and the criteria they choose them

 From Henry, running the project: "Well, the criteria were discussed 
within the group, but not openly because there was no open forum.  
Recall that it was a GDC event, then it became a website after that.  If 
we continue the project with a mode of presentation more focused on 
dissemination over the web and documentation, that would give us an 
opportunity to explain the criteria

That said, the heart and soul of the enterprise is to create a list a la 
what the American Film Institute has done for U.S. cinema.   The AFI's 
work has been a basis for preservation activities, as well."


You can look back to some of the older emails on some of the points 
raised, but I'd prefer if they were raised again by those who are 
concerned so we can get discussing them again a bit more on topic. I do 
have in mind a new website to build in my spare time (which might take a 
while) to host information and metadata on the different games we add, 
which is doable since we'll have a small list, and soon will have more 
collections for different videogame material on the IA.

Bring whatever you can to the discussion, although Henry leads the 
project so it's in his ballpark where it goes from here.

Andrew
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