[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] May 2009

[Henry Lowood]

Devin, Andrew:

You mean the archives of IGDA, not creating an archive at IGDA for 
material from other sources.  Right? 

The former is an important question and something that makes sense for 
our group to look at. The second I would leave to the cultural 
repositories who are building infrastructure for this.  I doubt that 
IGDA will want to invest resources in an historical archive.

Henry



Devin Monnens wrote:

> Andrew,

>

> As the Preservation SIG, we should certainly be concerned about the 

> data archival abilities of the IGDA. Not sure who would be in charge 

> of that to ask, though...

>

> -Devin Monnens

>

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     Extra apology here, I'm sorry this is late. It is a travesty of an

>     example when I'm the one touting project work to be done, man I

>     pretty much suck at timing this really.

>

>     Just in case anyone cares: in what little spare time (besides

>     starting the Bibliography website work) I have had I've been

>     deeply playing Mount & Blade, which isn't an excuse, just a

>     brilliant game. Also sadly the start of the month the IGDA site

>     had issues, which really wants me to confirm they do have a backup

>     plan somewhere, hehe :) Next months update should be on time,

>     along with some reports from two events I'm visiting this month

>     related to videogame preservation.

>

>     Luckily at work, Lunchtime is a prime hour for getting this done. :D

>

>     Andrew

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