[game_preservation] Questions about a website to preserve culture

[Andrew Perti]

Thank you for the message Scott.

For almost two years now, SIMM has been working closely with the 
University of Washington's iSchool on developing such a database 
model/schema.  The framework will have the capacity to ingest literally 
any type of information about physical, digital, and abstract artifacts 
and in most cases associate a lot of the appropriate metadata and 
meta-metadata automatically.

I'm giving a talk about the system and preliminary workflow guidelines 
at MCN this year.  Here's a link.

http://www.mcn.edu/caveat-fractal-indexing-and-accessing-video-games-and-related-ephemera

If you would like to become involved please drop me an email.

Andrew Perti
Founder | Seattle Interactive Media Museum
andrew.perti at thesimm.org | www.thesimm.org
Mobile: 518 653-5864

On 7/16/2012 2:24 PM, Scott Sheppard wrote:

> I, for the past three years, have kicked around the idea of starting a 

> website that would act as a main hub to catalog the entirety of video 

> game culture and history in digital form. Everything from Game 

> entries, to Developer profiles, to photographs that often show up on 

> reddit, to sprites, to in-game items, music, etc. I originally 

> imagined it as an IMDb for games, but after tweaking the idea off an 

> on for these past years, have decided on a larger scope and purpose. 

> The goal would be to create a dedicated platform that every game could 

> have the detail as WoWWiki, in a more profile oriented layout.

>

> The goal would be to create a database website around the framework of 

> a crowdfunding game that would appeal to gamer's hearts. The game 

> would be made so as to foster the intrinsic benefits of contributing 

> to an MMO style collaborative project. It would be made in the style 

> of what Jane McGonigal talks about in her book 'Reality is Broken'. It 

> would both serve as a way to preserve the memory of games as we know 

> it now and throughout the future, as well as boldly experiment and 

> test the waters in the field of crowdsourcing games.

>

> I'd like to first off inquire about the interest in such a project. I 

> planned on making this a large scale community project that would be 

> open for libraries and museums to include in their institutions. Is 

> that something that's even desired? Also, I wanted to know about 

> collaboration with other projects of a smaller more niche scale. 

> Projects like gamemusic.multimedia.cx 

> <http://gamemusic.multimedia.cx>, Ocremix, vNES, or Moby Games all 

> have done amazing things with their individual efforts, but lack the 

> scale that could come from banding together in a collaborative effort 

> to preserve the things that we all love. What are your thoughts on 

> being able to all work towards a common goal?

>

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