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This is probably only going to be archives which can allow academic
access to materials, and which have a certain level of independence
from financial problems - ie; they won't sell any of it off if they are
pressed for cash, and won't sell it all if the owner dies for instance.
Collectors I don't think would be appropriate, although I am sure
they'd like to have more stuff :-)<br>
<br>
This list is a reference tool however. In some cases, if no
museum/archive can take the things, and the person really can't keep
them, obviously third parties would be a somewhat necessary step! I
don't think the list will host individuals however, at least not from
what was originally discussed at GDC.<br>
<br>
An update on my original post: I went to the National Museum of
Computing and will report on it later (very cool place), and the
organiser there said he could get the UK details sorted since there is
basically him and 2 other places, the other two likely not accepting
much. I'll get this done then sort the other ones I think, in a week or
so, since I can discuss it in person with him. There won't be much
leeway sadly, and I think source code might be better handled if the IA
was properly equipped and a project or collection there started, since
the cost of running proper servers and backups is not something this
museum will be doing right now. America etc. will be different of
course :)<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
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should put up some guidelines as to what types of
organizations are qualified to accept materials. Otherwise, hey, I’ll
definitely accept contributions, as I’m sure would many of my
colleagues on the
software collector’s mailing list…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org">game_preservation-bounces@igda.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org">mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew
Armstrong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> IGDA Game Preservation SIG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [game_preservation] Contributing Materials
Information - help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, so, as with the museums update (which I am
sorting
offline and have noted all the information so far, thanks all!) there
is this
page I need to update too:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Contributions">http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Contributions</a><br>
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"You can find here a short directory of archives and museums who are
willing to accept developer materials, game source code and physical
materials
(such as consoles, game copies, marketing materials and documents)."<br>
<br>
Now, the question is, what information should these organisations
provide to be
put up on this page? My first thoughts:<br>
- Full physical street address<br>
- Contact name, title/job<br>
- Phone number<br>
- Email address<br>
<br>
Optionally, would also have:<br>
- What types of material can be accepted (might be specific types -
such as
"no software" or a specific era, or a specific console...who knows)<br>
<br>
Can anyone think of anything else? This is all I've got on it so far,
but there
is surely some meta data which would be useful to a would-be
contributor.
Contributors can, of course, not just be developers - I am sure a few
collectors or interested parties might be able to contribute and
accidentally
find the page too. Therefore: off the bat, would this informtation be
enough if
you had something and wanted to find somewhere to contribute it to?<br>
<br>
Hopefully once this is more up to date and complete, we'll be able to
advocate
developers putting materials into archives :-) Show them this link, and
get the
word out at least more reliably then "well, you could
probably...um...maybe...ring someone?...perhaps...".<br>
<br>
I'll also get together a list of rough guidelines (pending our
whitepapers!) on
how to store material for future preservation (eg; at companies who say
"no way" at the moment :) ), or how to send it in to these
organisations in the best way possible. Opinions on this are equally
welcome.<br>
<br>
Reason for the "help!" part is I'm going to visit the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.tnmoc.org/">National Museum of
Computing</a> on Saturday where
I might volunteer, and this is something I will bring up - the same
with a few
other UK places which might be able to accept material. I'll try and
visit them
in person, and otherwise email out-of-UK places, and I would love to
send them
a form to fill in for this to keep it standardised.<br>
<br>
Thanks all!<br>
<br>
Andrew <o:p></o:p></p>
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