[game_preservation] Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 funded for two years

[Melanie Swalwell]

That's great news, Henry, Congrats.
Melanie

Henry Lowood wrote:

>  All,

>

> The official announcement is out from IMLS (Institute for Museum and 

> Library Studies, a federal agency in the U.S.) that they will fund 

> Preserving Virtual Worlds for two additional years.  The focus will 

> shift a bit to work on essential properties work and user evaluations 

> of emulated, virtualized and other ways of delivering archived content.

> http://www.imls.gov/news/2010/092710_list.shtm

> Look under Illinois, as UIUC is the primary institution, as with PVW1.

>

> Jerome McDonough, Susan Rojo, Rachel Donahue or I on this list can 

> provide more information; just contact one of us, if interested.

>

> Congrats to us at Stanford and to our colleagues at UIUC, UM, and RIT.

>

> Just back from a trip to F.R.O.G. in Vienna,

>

> Henry

>


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