[game_preservation] Contributing Materials Information - help!

[Stuart Feldhamer]

You should put up some guidelines as to what types of organizations are
qualified to accept materials. Otherwise, hey, I'll definitely accept
contributions, as I'm sure would many of my colleagues on the software
collector's mailing list.

 

Stuart

 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:22 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: [game_preservation] Contributing Materials Information - help!

 

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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