[game_preservation] Digital Press kickstarting a videogame history museum

[Frank Cifaldi]

Right now they're just trying to get a space so they can get started, other projects would follow. I don't know what their ultimate ambitions are, but I do know that these guys are big champions of digital preservation and of providing a place to conduct research. They once helped Activision out with one of its compilation packs by providing assets and data, and they'd like to start doing more of that sort of work. They also want to host events and talks like CGE.

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On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:


> Collection and display.  They're basically interested in formal

> presentation of their personal collections (a portion of which they've

> been showing off at CGE and E3 all these years).

> 

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> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Digital Press is taking donations for The Video Game History Museum, which

>> first showed an exhibit at E3 this year as well as at the Classic Gaming Exp

>> in Vegas.

>> 

>> http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/07/digital_press_veterans_kicksta.php

>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760848975/the-videogame-history-museum

>> http://www.vghmuseum.org/

>> 

>> They're looking to raise $50k through Kickstarter, which actually seems to

>> me like a very small number. Do you suppose they're looking more for

>> collection and display rather than long-term preservation? I recently read

>> an article about how museums are less interested in long-term preservation

>> (i.e. making sure the thing works) than with having objects on display, so

>> whether the data on a floppy disk is readable is kind of irrelevant. The

>> curators pointed their fingers at libraries and archives as those

>> responsible for the task of information preservation.

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