[game_preservation] Bibliography project

[Andrew Armstrong]

Sounds good, the rating thing was probably going to be for articles 
highly related to preservation - if we add an article, it implies it is 
a good source for *something* but not necessarily historical work - the 
way a game is made is useful for certain types of research into that 
game for instance, but not generally historical, whereas why a game was 
made and what went on when it was made in the company might be better.

Will have to think if it it just needs a simple "Yes/No" for "Highly 
useful" or whatever it is given. Might need to fine tune it more - if it 
is useful for information and accuracy on "X" but not on "Y".

Must reads is a key part - key texts need to be added for general work, 
and I've noted down your other fields - I forgot publisher etc.! :)

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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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