Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200903

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March 2009

White paper work has gone on strongly and GDC is looming!

Preservation SIG February 2009 Work

The white paper "Before It's Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper" is now nearly complete, there is some more editing to do and printing to take care of before GDC. Good work all who has contributed to it! we'll release a digital copy to the SIG and public when we can :)

The SIG also has a logo, finally. I finished up the design, and is shown proudly on our wiki page. I'll be sure to get it on future content, new IGDA site pages, and whatever else I can.

At the Internet Archive we have two major changes - contributions to the videogame footage collection from Satakore.com, a Sega site.

Secondly, we have been working on the new section for game patches. This is currently having bits and pieces added to it (so I can get up to speed on the kind of thing which is a good idea to do for items - patch notes, etc.). Help would be welcome, so if anyone has a large collection of patches, especially for older titles, getting them to me or uploading them would be a great help. Contact me or Simon (simon -at- archive -dot- org) to offer help.

We also have had some interest for starting up the Oral Histories project for real, at least in collaboration with existing efforts in the area - Dean O’Donnell from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The collectors information project might also get some help from Stuart Feldhamer, thank you both!

Finally, Dan Pinchbeck from Portsmouth University has got some preservation panel work to be offered to DiGRA, one item will be the white paper, and some other related research of course. The actual event is at Brunel University, West London 1st - 4th of September 2009, a date for your diaries if you're in the UK.

Future Work for March 2009

Major items to get done in March include preparing for GDC. We'll make sure to advertise when the extra meeting session will be, the roundtable has been confirmed to be Friday (March 27, 2009), 2:30pm — 3:30pm. Catch us there if possible!

I personally am also going to report on Byte-Back next weekend, and finally play some more old videogames. I certainly don't do enough in that regard!

Mailing List Discussions

If you've not joined our mailing list, please do so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to old-fangled email.

This month we have discussions on an extra GDC meeting, the aforementioned collectors project and oral histories, as well as a lot around KEEP.

There is also sad discussion on HOTU (Home of the Underdogs) shutting down, and an interesting discussion started on preserving analogue media correctly. Contributions to the latter discussion welcomed this month!

Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links

Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !

Note: this month I've been terribly lax. I've got 300+ things just in my RSS feeds to check out, so expect more news on the blog next month.

Final Thoughts

Hopefully we'll see some of the SIG gather at GDC :) should be fun!

Andrew Armstrong

IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor

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