[game_preservation] Updates

[Henry Lowood]

Greetings,

This is an update on recent activities from the IGDA Game 
Preservation SIG.   I will try to be light on text here -- maybe even 
cryptically so -- while putting more details about matters on the 
SIG's wiki and blog in the next few days.   A propos:

1. We still need volunteers to edit the wiki and blog.   I hope some 
of you new members from the GDC roundtables are still interested.

2. Blog: http://www.igda.org/preservation/
     Wiki: http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Game_Preservation_SIG

Here are the updates, with notes on what I will post to the SIG:

1. At last week's Game Developers Conference, IGDA sponsored three 
sessions directly related to the activities of the SIG: two 
roundtables and one panel.  The panel  was the "Digital Game Canon" 
event you may have read about.  (If not, see the blog.)   The 
response has been rather dramatic, at least in terms of the number of 
posts to Slashdot, Joystiq, Grandtextauto and the like.

2. You can see the Canon at its new official home on our wiki here:
http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Game_Preservation_SIG/Digital_Game_Canon/

3. I will post the (short) presentations shortly to the wiki, at 
least those that I have.  ;)

I probably can't go into much detail for another week or so, but it 
looks very good for the game preservation proposal to Library of 
Congress.   This project will be carried out by a consortium of Univ. 
of Illinois, Stanford, Univ. of Maryland, and Rochester Univ.

Next up, I will post notes from the roundtables, which will include a 
list of five or so proposed things to do in the next year.   If any 
of you who attended have notes, feel free to post, as well.

After doing this, I will probably step back briefly and wait for some 
volunteer editors for the blog and wiki, and/or some hands in the air 
to get started on the "to do list."  Reason is that I don't want this 
at all to be a one-man show.   But I do think we have some momentum 
now, so let's move with it!

Best,

Henry





Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections
Curator for Germanic Collections; Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood