[game_preservation] Oral History Project

[laurie n. taylor]

Since you mention that students are doing the oral history interviews, some
institutions see oral histories as needing IRB approval. The American
Historical Association disagrees with this requirement (
http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2006/0602/0602new1.cfm and
http://blog.historians.org/profession/618/training-discernment-and-oral-history-review),
but if your institution deems it necessary, getting the IRB approval can
smooth the process overall.

Where IRB may or may not be required, releases are necessary.

Laurie N. Taylor
University of Florida Digital Collections
http://ufdc.ufl.edu

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


> Dean,

>

> DMCA is probably not a factor here, beyond just what you would normally

> expect with copyright.  However, I do have a related question: Do you have

> releases from the oral history subjects?   This is not just important for

> the preservation solution downstream, but even for your own project.

>

> Henry

>

>

> On 5/9/2011 11:42 AM, O'Donnell, Dean M wrote:

>

>>  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

>> ________________________________

>> 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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>>

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>

>   Film&  Media Collections

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