[game_preservation] Contributing Materials Information - help!

[Andrew Armstrong]

Okay, so, as with the museums update (which I am sorting offline and 
have noted all the information so far, thanks all!) there is this page I 
need to update too:

http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Contributions

"You can find here a short directory of archives and museums who are 
willing to accept developer materials, game source code and physical 
materials (such as consoles, game copies, marketing materials and 
documents)."

Now, the question is, what information should these organisations 
provide to be put up on this page? My first thoughts:
- Full physical street address
- Contact name, title/job
- Phone number
- Email address

Optionally, would also have:
- What types of material can be accepted (might be specific types - such 
as "no software" or a specific era, or a specific console...who knows)

Can anyone think of anything else? This is all I've got on it so far, 
but there is surely some meta data which would be useful to a would-be 
contributor. Contributors can, of course, not just be developers - I am 
sure a few collectors or interested parties might be able to contribute 
and accidentally find the page too. Therefore: off the bat, would this 
informtation be enough if you had something and wanted to find somewhere 
to contribute it to?

Hopefully once this is more up to date and complete, we'll be able to 
advocate developers putting materials into archives :-) Show them this 
link, and get the word out at least more reliably then "well, you could 
probably...um...maybe...ring someone?...perhaps...".

I'll also get together a list of rough guidelines (pending our 
whitepapers!) on how to store material for future preservation (eg; at 
companies who say "no way" at the moment :) ), or how to send it in to 
these organisations in the best way possible. Opinions on this are 
equally welcome.

Reason for the "help!" part is I'm going to visit the National Museum of 
Computing <http://www.tnmoc.org/> on Saturday where I might volunteer, 
and this is something I will bring up - the same with a few other UK 
places which might be able to accept material. I'll try and visit them 
in person, and otherwise email out-of-UK places, and I would love to 
send them a form to fill in for this to keep it standardised.

Thanks all!

Andrew
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