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

[Kari Kraus]

Congrats, Henry! Very cool project.

Kari

Kari Kraus
Associate Professor
College of Information Studies
Department of English
University of Maryland
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


>  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

>

> 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 94305-6004650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

>

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