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We've got through rainy July (well, rainy in the UK at least). Not much
to report in this opening :)
<h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">
Preservation SIG July 2009 Work </span></h3>
<p>The SIG has had some discussions on the mailing list, and I've
personally been working on the Bibliography project in the background,
currently organising all the types of data that might be useful and
testing various PHP and HTML. :)
</p>
<p>The SIG hasn't got any other ongoing projects right now, but if you
are interested, at all, in preservation to help us with our <a
href="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG"
class="external text"
title="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG" rel="nofollow">projects</a>
(and if you think something is missing, please tell us). We could use
some champions and some activity if anyone has time!
</p>
<h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"> Future
Work for July 2009 </span></h3>
<p>More work from me on the bibliography work, but apart from that I
hope to check the Memorials project and make sure it is up to date, and
possibly revise the layouts and templates a bit.
</p>
<h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"> Mailing
List Discussions </span></h3>
<p>If you've not joined our <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation"
rel="nofollow">mailing list</a>,
please do so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick
to old-fangled email. This will eventually change when the IGDA site
changes over - although those wanting email can still get it.
</p>
<p><a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/thread.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/thread.html"
rel="nofollow">July</a> has had the <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001248.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001248.html"
rel="nofollow">DiGRA</a> <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001262.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001262.html"
rel="nofollow">paper</a> proposed for starters. We also caught up with
the <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001254.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001254.html"
rel="nofollow">GIDA website progress and mailing list backups</a>.
I have got the entirety of them downloaded, and what I last heard
backups of the old site and mailman servers was something that was
going to be looked at.
</p>
<p>There is the report of <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001261.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001261.html"
rel="nofollow">Eludamos call for papers</a> on preservation among
other topics (this is noted below too).
</p>
<p>We also discuss <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001280.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001280.html"
rel="nofollow">Old PC game sales</a>
- including different digital distributions (Good old Games, Steam,
others), emulation, and so forth. Windows 7 looks like it will run <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001283.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001283.html"
rel="nofollow">about as much as Vista</a>.
</p>
<p>Finally we discussed a random assortment of things when <a
href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001300.html"
class="external text"
title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-July/001300.html"
rel="nofollow">iPhone game preservation</a>
was brought up. There was both comparisons to film (my bad! it was more
expensive then I ever realised), and some numbers were sent around.
Without any active digital preservation archives however, no one seems
to be able to think about this without setting about a project, it
being a low priority right now. The issue of censorship, removal of
apps (by Apple or otherwise) and other issues all come up.
</p>
<h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links </span></h3>
<p><i>Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to
preservation_news @ igda.org !</i>
</p>
<ul>
<li> <a
href="http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/07/state_of_the_vi.html"
class="external text"
title="http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/07/state_of_the_vi.html"
rel="nofollow">State of the Videogame Nation</a>
</li>
<li> <a
href="http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/07/eludamos_next_g.html"
class="external text"
title="http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/07/eludamos_next_g.html"
rel="nofollow">Eludamos: "Next Gen" Issue Wants Gaming History Entries</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"> Final
Thoughts </span></h3>
<p>I am fascinated by a lot of topics which need more
journalistic-investigation - or nice question asking - like the iPhone
and digital distribution issues this group (or it's members at least)
will have to think of in the future. Once I have sorted this
Bibliography project I'll probably get to doing some serious articles
to do encyclopaedic-like knowledge for the wiki - if you're interested
in helping give me a shout, otherwise this will be a long term thing to
do (and finish off some of the existing projects which need wiki info).
Stay tuned!
</p>
<p>Andrew Armstrong
</p>
<p>IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
</p>
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