[game_preservation] A Triumph Of Game Preservation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Sure, all those suggestions are very good - you don't want to take the 
initiative and do any of them? :) (For the archive repository, if the 
data is all digital at the very least I am sure the Internet Archive can 
have the majority of it in one form or another).

I am still in the process (offline) of thinking how to revamp the wiki 
information, and these projects should be listed there along with other 
good fansites/source of info. I can't disseminate information on the 
wiki, it's just a poor location for it since everything is manual, but I 
hope to get some form of DB-run site (perhaps the DGC one) which can 
work to do the metadata and linking/searching to media side, especially 
Archive.org things which are hopeless to search through :)

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote:

> Chris, I've been listening in, and these suggestions make perfect 

> sense. You think we should have PT Boat awards?

>

> -DM

>

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Chris Lepine <chris at artfulgamer.com 

> <mailto:chris at artfulgamer.com>> wrote:

>

>     Although I'm a newcomer to this list - I've been lurking here for

>     a while - and had a couple of thoughts on this story. Since the WC

>     team, Joe Garrity, and Dan Chisarick, among others, did such a

>     wonderful job digitally archiving these materials, would any of

>     the following ideas make sense:

>

>     - Speaking with Joe or the WC people to determine how they went

>     about approaching EA and Mythic for the clearances on archiving

>     the materials. It might make the job for future archival projects

>     much, much easier.

>     - Possibly putting the WC team in contact with one of the software

>     repositories, or physical archive projects, so that they don't

>     have to bear the complete burden of storage.

>     - Assisting in some other way to disseminate archival material?

>     Although I'm deeply appreciative of their efforts, the WCnews site

>     is hardly an ideal place to disseminate materials.

>

>     Etc, etc. I'm just thinking out loud - I'd welcome any input,

>     further ideas, or suggestions. Obviously the Game Preservation

>     wiki is already loaded with ongoing projects, helping to take

>     advantage of such a huge archive seems like an infinitely valuable

>     opportunity.

>

>     Cheers,

>     - Chris

>     ---

>     The Artful Gamer: In Search of the Lyrical and Poetic in Video Games

>     http://www.artfulgamer.com

>

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