[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] May 2009

[Henry Lowood]

Ok, good, that's what I figured, but always best to ask.

Henry

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Certainly the former, the IGDA's own backups of it's own data. The 

> latter we might build up some kind of database (and we'll get a 

> bibliography system soon), but nothing to store practical documents or 

> any large files.

>

> I'll have to ask around.

>

> Andrew

>

> Henry Lowood wrote:

>> Devin, Andrew:

>>

>> You mean the archives of IGDA, not creating an archive at IGDA for 

>> material from other sources.  Right? 

>>

>> The former is an important question and something that makes sense 

>> for our group to look at. The second I would leave to the cultural 

>> repositories who are building infrastructure for this.  I doubt that 

>> IGDA will want to invest resources in an historical archive.

>>

>> Henry

>>

>>

>>

>> Devin Monnens wrote:

>>> Andrew,

>>>

>>> As the Preservation SIG, we should certainly be concerned about the 

>>> data archival abilities of the IGDA. Not sure who would be in charge 

>>> of that to ask, though...

>>>

>>> -Devin Monnens

>>>

>>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

>>> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>>>

>>>     Extra apology here, I'm sorry this is late. It is a travesty of

>>>     an example when I'm the one touting project work to be done, man

>>>     I pretty much suck at timing this really.

>>>

>>>     Just in case anyone cares: in what little spare time (besides

>>>     starting the Bibliography website work) I have had I've been

>>>     deeply playing Mount & Blade, which isn't an excuse, just a

>>>     brilliant game. Also sadly the start of the month the IGDA site

>>>     had issues, which really wants me to confirm they do have a

>>>     backup plan somewhere, hehe :) Next months update should be on

>>>     time, along with some reports from two events I'm visiting this

>>>     month related to videogame preservation.

>>>

>>>     Luckily at work, Lunchtime is a prime hour for getting this done. :D

>>>

>>>     Andrew

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>>>

>>>

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 Film & Media Collections
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