[game_preservation] IMLS funds three-year UCSC-Stanford game metadata project

[Henry Lowood]

All,

This is a preliminary announcement to this group, since this is the game 
preservation group after all.
The Institute for Museum and Library Services has just today announced 
its latest round of funded projects here:
http://www.imls.gov/news/2013_ols_grant_announcement.aspx#CA

Under University of California, Santa Cruz, you will find:

*University of California, Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA*
Grant Program: National Leadership Grants for Libraries
Program Category: Research
Award Amount: $500,000

Contact: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Associate Professor
(831)459-4131;nwf at soe.ucsc.edu <mailto:nwf at soe.ucsc.edu>

Stanford University Library, in partnership with the University of Santa 
Cruz, will develop a publishable metadata scheme for digital games, 
including ontology and terminology, as well as a system and tools for 
citation of in-game events and game states. While the work of collection 
and preservation is underway, digital games present unique and complex 
stewardship problems, including methods for description, discovery and 
citation. As acquisition of this type of collection increases, 
challenges with cataloguing, storage, and access are compounded. This 
framework will provide a complete solution to the closely linked 
problems of finding, accessing, and citing digital games, a growing and 
important part of modern culture.


This project will give us an opportunity to move beyond acquisition to 
discovery, description and citation issues, i.e., metadata.

More soon as we cobble together our official announcements.

Best,

Henry

-- 
Henry Lowood
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
   Film & Media Collections
HSSG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

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