[game_preservation] Oral History Project

[O'Donnell, Dean M]

 Henry,

That's fine with me, although we've already got some preservation problems.

Some of the unedited interviews were burned as DVDs before we had the room to put them online.  So apparently to get them as simple video files again we'd be in violation of the DMCA.  At least that's what I'm told, my student could be wrong.

Dean
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From: Henry Lowood [lowood at stanford.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 5:55 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Cc: O'Donnell, Dean M
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Oral History Project

Hi Dean,

Besides the question about helping with interviews, I'd like to offer something else, both to WPI and for the IGDA materials.   Namely, a preservation solution.  If the releases permit it, we could take copies of the videos into the digital repository here at Stanford.   We don't necessarily have to stream from here, since WPI and IGDA will have solutions for that (though we could, with the videos embedded on the other sites).  In other words, these could be "dark" preservation copies.  Let me know if this is of interest.

Henry

On 5/6/2011 2:30 PM, O'Donnell, Dean M wrote:
Hi all,

We’ve been quietly working on the Oral History Project for a few years over here.  The website has just undergone a redesign and I thought I’d point it out.

http://alpheus.wpi.edu/imgd/oral-history/

I train a student team every year in interview techniques, along with Jason Scott (who has now moved to NYC and can’t be a part of the process anymore).  We’re slowly but surely collecting interviews, but we have a number of limitations—first, the student workers are limited in how far they can travel by how far they can drive, and second, not every game developer or former game developer is interested in being interviewed.

And we’re running out of Infocom alums.  :)

I updated the wiki a couple of months back.  The students work during the school year, so suggestions and comments for this upcoming year are welcome.

Thanks,
Dean

Dean O’Donnell
Teaching Professor
Interactive Media and Game Development Program
WPI


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