[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] May 2009

[Andrew Armstrong]

Certainly the former, the IGDA's own backups of it's own data. The 
latter we might build up some kind of database (and we'll get a 
bibliography system soon), but nothing to store practical documents or 
any large files.

I'll have to ask around.

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> 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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