[game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 104, Issue 7
Dyson, Jon-Paul
jpdyson at museumofplay.org
Mon Apr 21 08:15:57 EDT 2014
Scott,
I don’t think the UT Video Game Archive has a designated archivist right now, but you might try contacting Warren Spector (who’s now affiliated with UT and helped get the archive started) directly as to whom you should contact at the UT archives to see if you can volunteer there. If you don’t have a direct contact with him feel free to email me off list and I can give you his email.
Best,
JP
Jon-Paul C. Dyson, PhD
Director, International Center for the History of Electronic Games
Vice President for Exhibits
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From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Scott Sheppard
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 2:34 PM
To: game_preservation at igda.org
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 104, Issue 7
Is anyone here associated with the UT Archive here in Austin, TX? Would it be most convenient for me to just swing by some time, or should we hop on the phone? Is there anything I can do to help the archive with my physical presence? I don't have any games to donate, but I'd love to help with the management/organization if there's a need.
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1. Re: Getting involved (Henry Lowood)
2. Re: game_preservation Digest, Vol 104, Issue 6 (Scott Sheppard)
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From: Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu<mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>>
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Getting involved
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org<mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>>
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Mike makes a great suggestion, and that's exactly right as a place to
start. Let me go one step beyond - if you have documentation such as
saved games or video captures of game play or other (digital) traces of
your gameplay, I have a place for it on the Internet Archive - in the
Archiving Virtual Worlds <https://archive.org/details/virtual_worlds>
collection. Just let me know. Non-digital, there are several museum
and library collections scattered around the country that could use help
- pick the one nearest you (Strong or SBU in NY, Texas, Stanford in
California, SIMM in Seattle, etc.)
Henry
On 4/16/2014 9:16 PM, Mike Melanson wrote:
> On 4/16/2014 1:10 PM, Scott Sheppard wrote:
>> I've been a pretty solid lurker for a couple of years now, and would
>> like to become more actively involved in preservation stuff. I haven't
>> really had much to contribute to the conversation yet, or I'd comment
>> more often.
>>
>> Do you all have any suggestions as far as how to get to know folks or
>> get involved in any projects?
>
> Do you own any games? Are they all well represented in the MobyGames
> database yet?
>
> http://www.mobygames.com/
>
> For the games you own, if there are bits of cover art missing, scan
> and submit them. If the game has no screenshots, play it (good excuse
> to do so), capture screenshots and submit them. If the game isn't
> there at all, then you have a lot of data to contribute.
>
> It might seem like a small contribution but, hey, it's something. :)
> I've been contributing for close to a decade. It sometimes dawns on me
> that, for certain games, if I hadn't written them up for MobyGames,
> this vast collection of human knowledge called the internet would have
> almost no record that the game ever existed at all.
>
--
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<tel:650-723-4602>; lowood at stanford.edu<mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood
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Subject: Re: [game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 104,
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Great advice. I honestly hadn't thought of that one yet. :)
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> I've been a pretty solid lurker for a couple of years now, and would like
> to become more actively involved in preservation stuff. I haven't really
> had much to contribute to the conversation yet, or I'd comment more often.
>
> Do you all have any suggestions as far as how to get to know folks or get
> involved in any projects?
>
> --
> -Scott
>
> "We build our games like a Japanese garden, where the design is perfect
> when you cannot remove anything else."
> -Jenova Chen
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> From: Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx<mailto:mike at multimedia.cx>>
> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Getting involved
> To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org<mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>>
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> On 4/16/2014 1:10 PM, Scott Sheppard wrote:
> > I've been a pretty solid lurker for a couple of years now, and would
> > like to become more actively involved in preservation stuff. I haven't
> > really had much to contribute to the conversation yet, or I'd comment
> > more often.
> >
> > Do you all have any suggestions as far as how to get to know folks or
> > get involved in any projects?
>
> Do you own any games? Are they all well represented in the MobyGames
> database yet?
>
> http://www.mobygames.com/
>
> For the games you own, if there are bits of cover art missing, scan and
> submit them. If the game has no screenshots, play it (good excuse to do
> so), capture screenshots and submit them. If the game isn't there at
> all, then you have a lot of data to contribute.
>
> It might seem like a small contribution but, hey, it's something. :)
> I've been contributing for close to a decade. It sometimes dawns on me
> that, for certain games, if I hadn't written them up for MobyGames, this
> vast collection of human knowledge called the internet would have almost
> no record that the game ever existed at all.
>
> --
> -Mike Melanson
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:28:12 -0400
> From: Benj Edwards <editor at vintagecomputing.com<mailto:editor at vintagecomputing.com>>
> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Getting involved
> To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org<mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>>
> Message-ID: <534FC8DC.4020906 at vintagecomputing.com<mailto:534FC8DC.4020906 at vintagecomputing.com>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>
> On 4/17/2014 12:16 AM, Mike Melanson wrote:
> > I've been contributing for close to a decade. It sometimes dawns on me
> > that, for certain games, if I hadn't written them up for MobyGames,
> > this vast collection of human knowledge called the internet would have
> > almost no record that the game ever existed at all.
> >
>
> That's a good point, Mike. We all have a part to play in digital
> preservation, even if it seems small now. In aggregate, small
> contributions become big ones. Even the Great Wall of China was built
> one brick at a time -- over centuries and by thousands of people.
>
> Benj
>
> --
> Freelance Journalist / Editor, Vintage Computing and Gaming
> http://www.benjedwards.com
> http://www.vintagecomputing.com
>
>
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