[game_preservation] The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (?)

[Alex Handy]

The way it was presented to us, the IGDA has information, data, and physical
assets they want preserved. This might just amount to throwing up a Web site
where this stuff can be catalogued. We plan to push some volunteers towards
the IGDA this summer to help with that.

As for the SIG, it was proposed at GDC that the SIG take up quarterly
projects, and the one suggested to do first was to find out what game
companies have archivists, and to evangelize the ones that don't so they
realize they should be saving their assets and history. To help with this,
we've posted a list of game development companies at
http://wiki.themade.orgwhere we need to add a new column to the list
for "archivist" and "has no
archivist." We can then use that list to pick out which companies should be
targeted.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


> Andrew,

>

> Some confusion on the page you found.   The MADE is a new project in San

> Francisco, and I believe Alex Handy is on this list.  Yes, I'm on the Board.

>  Alex attended the Roundtable at GDC.  He has also been in direct contact

> with IGDA Central about software archiving; I don't know much about that.

> The IGDA history part of the post is a separate matter, and I'm not sure

> what the MADE could offer there; I've separately been in contact with Gordon

> about that, but again, not much has happened yet, as Gordon and I have both

> been waiting for our schedules to clear a bit.   I'm guessing summer for

> anything concrete.

>

> Henry

>

>

> On 4/1/2011 2:15 AM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>> I guess they do know of the organisation, I wonder about the SIG though:

>> http://blog.themade.org/?p=37

>>

>> Not sure what that is referring to though; I didn't realise the IGDA was

>> asking for this...?

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>> On 01/04/2011 10:10, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>

>>> Hey, anyone heard about this place before just a  few seconds ago? :)

>>>

>>> http://themade.org/

>>>

>>> I found it via. Slashdot (probably popped up elsewhere but my RSS reader

>>> is a mess):

>>>

>>>

>>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/31/2252247/San-Francisco-Opening-Computer-amp-Video-Game-Museum

>>>

>>> Do you think they even know about this SIG or that there are related

>>> organisations nearby? Anyone up for contacting them or if they know them

>>> personally inviting them here? Even if they don't get off the ground it's

>>> odd there are some historians who don't know about us, we're just not well

>>> known enough I guess :)

>>>

>>> Andrew

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