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

[Dyson, Jon-Paul]

Congratulations, Henry!

JP

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Henry Lowood
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:38 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: [game_preservation] IMLS funds three-year UCSC-Stanford game metadata project

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



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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<mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood
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