This is a good question. I can put these in two categories.<div><br></div><div>1. Essential Information</div><div><br></div><div>This is for identifying the games: title, year, publisher, developer, region, version number, platform, region, and alternate or translated titles.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Additional Information for getting content to run</div><div><br></div><div>This would include what kinds of accessories work with the game, any issues or compatibilities it has with hardware (i.e. GBA-GC link cable; In the Hunt won't work using a Pro Action Replay unless you either have a controller in port 1 only or a controller in both ports), if on OS, hardware and software requirements (both recommended and minimum).</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, metadata is also important: what kind of game is it, for instance. Maybe someone wants to look at RPGs, or specifically action-RPGs like Secret of Mana. However, this feels more like information that is in Mobygames. Conversely, collectors would be interested in rarity and cost. Other databases might want images of boxes, games, and manual PDFs. Each database would have its own goals. My personal goals would be 'how do I identify the game?' and the second is 'how do I get it to run?' and so for this reason, 1 and 2 are the most important for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Jan Baart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan_baart@yahoo.de">jan_baart@yahoo.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
As I'm in the process of building up a metadatabase for video game collectors I just have to ask. Exactly what kind of data would you like to see in such a database in general and which data is most crucial for historians? Now's the right time for me to still easily add things like that to the database!<br>
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On 23.12.2009 00:58, Andrew Armstrong wrote:<br>
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I'm highly interested in this too, having some common ground on searchable metadata fields would mean the world for researching the history of games -<br></div><div class="im">
Andrew<br>
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