[game_preservation] Bibliography project

[Devin Monnens]

Andrew,

Sounds like a good idea. I'd say required fields are the things we generally
use for references:

Author, title of work, title of source, publication information. ISBN is
also useful, as would be a mention of other places the article appears.

Commentary and rating system can be useful, but I would suggest that the
rating system (say 5 stars) could be out of context - not useful in what
way? The article may be very good, but if the article has nothing to do with
preservation, then why rate it highly?

I also think when possible we should have a collection of essays that have
been written on the site. This might not be possible with some texts, but we
could at least do an external link to them (say through Google books or the
like).

Anyway, this will be a great project. I think we definitely need a list of
'must reads' because this indicates sort of the canon of digital media
preservation (and preservation in general). We can also try to organize
based on who is workign with what - so for the papers coming out of Europe,
we can indicate which archives or universities they are working with and
perhaps who is connected with that, too.

-Devin Monnens

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> Hey all,

>

> I'll probably get the other projects' ideas more fleshed out in the coming

> weeks (people who take over a project can sort their own parts though of

> course :) ), but this one is immediately in my mind and could use some good

> comments early on.

>

> Basically, me and Devin discussed a Bibliography - a list of resources,

> from the normal books to web articles to other media. It would replace our

> current "Resources" list, which is a nightmare to edit and check though!

>

> If anyone has any thoughts on these points, or anything I've forgotten,

> would be ace:

> * What kind of fields would be useful to have for each entry (author, name,

> URL, ISBN/ISSN and keywords are obvious, any others?)

> * Categories of resources

> ** by type - such as "book", "news article", "opinion article"...?

> ** and also content - "game history", "game culture", "legal", "preview",

> "review", "discussion"...? not sure...

> * Should I add in a way to reference the game(s) the article might refer

> to?

> * Should there be a facility to either add the entire text of an article

> (so it is searchable, ala google books) or at perhaps at least an extract to

> the entry?

> * Should there be a "importance" field - basically our opinion on how

> "useful" some resource is? This might help pick out the "Must reference"

> resources perhaps.

> * I think there should be a facility to have an editor-added comment on the

> content of the article - the description, as it were. Thoughts?

> * Who wants to help add entries? :) it'll be editor run (with, I hope,

> publicly hidden histories kinda like a wiki) perhaps with some facility to

> have users submit entries. Editing with ease is going to be the priority.

>

> I was going to build a basic site to accommodate this for the mean time (it

> won't be on the IGDA's own server, I'd rather not fight to get webspace

> right now with Jason leaving who was the webmaster ;) ), and just basically

> get it up and running so people can add items. So, a simple PHP site, since

> I know some basic PHP :) I'd build it "correctly" since I want to expand

> this if it is useful, but I hope it'll be quick - so the layout will start

> absolutely horribly at first of course, heh.

>

> Andrew

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