[game_preservation] Updates

[Andreas Lange]

Hello,
I send a short note regarding the game canon, which seems to work well 
strategically:
today one of the two majorGerman news magazines, "Der Spiegel", 
publishes a story about game preservation. the article was written on 
the occasion of the game canon:

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/spielzeug/0,1518,471201,00.html

maybe there are others besides Henry subscribed, who understand German,

best, Andreas



Andreas Lange
DiGA e.V. - The Digital Game Archive
www.digitalgamearchive.org
phone: +49 (0)30 55155773
fax: +49 (0)30 55155772


Henry Lowood schrieb:

> 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

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