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Sounds good, the rating thing was probably going to be for articles
highly related to preservation - if we add an article, it implies it is
a good source for *something* but not necessarily historical work - the
way a game is made is useful for certain types of research into that
game for instance, but not generally historical, whereas why a game was
made and what went on when it was made in the company might be better.<br>
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Will have to think if it it just needs a simple "Yes/No" for "Highly
useful" or whatever it is given. Might need to fine tune it more - if
it is useful for information and accuracy on "X" but not on "Y".<br>
<br>
Must reads is a key part - key texts need to be added for general work,
and I've noted down your other fields - I forgot publisher etc.! :)<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
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<div>Andrew,</div>
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<div>Sounds like a good idea. I'd say required fields are the things
we generally use for references:</div>
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<div>Author, title of work, title of source, publication information.
ISBN is also useful, as would be a mention of other places the article
appears.</div>
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<div>Commentary and rating system can be useful, but I would suggest
that the rating system (say 5 stars) could be out of context - not
useful in what way? The article may be very good, but if the article
has nothing to do with preservation, then why rate it highly?</div>
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<div>I also think when possible we should have a collection of essays
that have been written on the site. This might not be possible with
some texts, but we could at least do an external link to them (say
through Google books or the like).</div>
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<div>Anyway, this will be a great project. I think we definitely need
a list of 'must reads' because this indicates sort of the canon of
digital media preservation (and preservation in general). We can also
try to organize based on who is workign with what - so for the papers
coming out of Europe, we can indicate which archives or universities
they are working with and perhaps who is connected with that, too.</div>
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<div>-Devin Monnens<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Andrew
Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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all,<br>
<br>
I'll probably get the other projects' ideas more fleshed out in the
coming weeks (people who take over a project can sort their own parts
though of course :) ), but this one is immediately in my mind and could
use some good comments early on.<br>
<br>
Basically, me and Devin discussed a Bibliography - a list of resources,
from the normal books to web articles to other media. It would replace
our current "Resources" list, which is a nightmare to edit and check
though!<br>
<br>
If anyone has any thoughts on these points, or anything I've forgotten,
would be ace:<br>
* What kind of fields would be useful to have for each entry (author,
name, URL, ISBN/ISSN and keywords are obvious, any others?)<br>
* Categories of resources<br>
** by type - such as "book", "news article", "opinion article"...?<br>
** and also content - "game history", "game culture", "legal",
"preview", "review", "discussion"...? not sure...<br>
* Should I add in a way to reference the game(s) the article might
refer to?<br>
* Should there be a facility to either add the entire text of an
article (so it is searchable, ala google books) or at perhaps at least
an extract to the entry?<br>
* Should there be a "importance" field - basically our opinion on how
"useful" some resource is? This might help pick out the "Must
reference" resources perhaps.<br>
* I think there should be a facility to have an editor-added comment on
the content of the article - the description, as it were. Thoughts?<br>
* Who wants to help add entries? :) it'll be editor run (with, I hope,
publicly hidden histories kinda like a wiki) perhaps with some facility
to have users submit entries. Editing with ease is going to be the
priority.<br>
<br>
I was going to build a basic site to accommodate this for the mean time
(it won't be on the IGDA's own server, I'd rather not fight to get
webspace right now with Jason leaving who was the webmaster ;) ), and
just basically get it up and running so people can add items. So, a
simple PHP site, since I know some basic PHP :) I'd build it
"correctly" since I want to expand this if it is useful, but I hope
it'll be quick - so the layout will start absolutely horribly at first
of course, heh.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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