[game_preservation] PVW final report has been issued

[Andrew Armstrong]

  Rowan, plays and other performance arts might have something similar 
if they're not ever recorded - and if the script is lost, then who 
knows... They're not quite as interactive though!

Also, good to hear there might be further news Henry :)

Andrew

On 21/09/2010 20:48, Rowan Kaiser wrote:

> Thanks for this - I was actually just thinking and writing about it 

> slightly lesser version of this for a piece on World of Warcraft, and 

> how every time an expansion is released for an online game, everything 

> else becomes obsolete - and it's far worse when the game simply shuts 

> down. I really can't think of any other form of media where this is 

> the case.

>

> Rowan

>

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>      All,

>

>     We just completed the final project report for Preserving Virtual

>     Worlds I.  You can find the report here:

>

>     https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/17097

>

>     A number of you have asked about our findings; many thanks for

>     your patience while we went through the drill of completing the

>     report.

>

>     Henry

>

>     -- 

>     Henry Lowood

>     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 <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>;

>     http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood <http://www.stanford.edu/%7Elowood>

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