[game_preservation] Updates

[Henry Lowood]

Thanks, Andreas, for the reference.  The comparison to Marcel 
Reich-Ranicki (for those who don't know, he is the best-known 
literary critic in Germany) has me scratching my head, but it was a 
good article otherwise.

Henry

At 04:13 AM 3/16/2007, Andreas Lange wrote:

>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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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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