[game_preservation] Cataloging Standards?

[Devin Monnens]

This is a good question. I can put these in two categories.

1. Essential Information

This is for identifying the games: title, year, publisher, developer,
region, version number, platform, region, and alternate or translated
titles.

2. Additional Information for getting content to run

This would include what kinds of accessories work with the game, any issues
or compatibilities it has with hardware (i.e. GBA-GC link cable; In the Hunt
won't work using a Pro Action Replay unless you either have a controller in
port 1 only or a controller in both ports), if on OS, hardware and software
requirements (both recommended and minimum).

However,
metadata is also important: what kind of game is it, for instance.
Maybe someone wants to look at RPGs, or specifically action-RPGs like
Secret of Mana. However, this feels more like information that is in
Mobygames. Conversely, collectors would be interested in rarity and
cost. Other databases might want images of boxes, games, and manual
PDFs. Each database would have its own goals. My personal goals would
be 'how do I identify the game?' and
the second is 'how do I get it to
run?' and so for this reason, 1 and 2 are the most important for me.

Devin

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Jan Baart <jan_baart at yahoo.de> wrote:


> As I'm in the process of building up a metadatabase for video game

> collectors I just have to ask. Exactly what kind of data would you like to

> see in such a database in general and which data is most crucial for

> historians? Now's the right time for me to still easily add things like that

> to the database!

>

> Jan

>

>

> On 23.12.2009 00:58, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>>

>> I'm highly interested in this too, having some common ground on searchable

>> metadata fields would mean the world for researching the history of games -

>> Andrew

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