Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200908
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August 2009
We've got through rainy July (well, rainy in the UK at least). Not much to report in this opening :)
Preservation SIG July 2009 Work
The SIG has had some discussions on the mailing list, and I've personally been working on the Bibliography project in the background, currently organising all the types of data that might be useful and testing various PHP and HTML. :)
The SIG hasn't got any other ongoing projects right now, but if you are interested, at all, in preservation to help us with our projects (and if you think something is missing, please tell us). We could use some champions and some activity if anyone has time!
Future Work for July 2009
More work from me on the bibliography work, but apart from that I hope to check the Memorials project and make sure it is up to date, and possibly revise the layouts and templates a bit.
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 will eventually change when the IGDA site changes over - although those wanting email can still get it.
July has had the DiGRA paper proposed for starters. We also caught up with the IGDA website progress and mailing list backups. I have got the entirety of them downloaded, and what I last heard backups of the old site and mailman servers was something that was going to be looked at.
There is the report of Eludamos call for papers on preservation among other topics (this is noted below too).
We also discuss Old PC game sales - including different digital distributions (Good old Games, Steam, others), emulation, and so forth. Windows 7 looks like it will run about as much as Vista.
Finally we discussed a random assortment of things when iPhone game preservation was brought up. There was both comparisons to film (my bad! it was more expensive then I ever realised), and some numbers were sent around. Without any active digital preservation archives however, no one seems to be able to think about this without setting about a project, it being a low priority right now. The issue of censorship, removal of apps (by Apple or otherwise) and other issues all come up.
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links
Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !
Final Thoughts
I am fascinated by a lot of topics which need more journalistic-investigation - or nice question asking - like the iPhone and digital distribution issues this group (or it's members at least) will have to think of in the future. Once I have sorted this Bibliography project I'll probably get to doing some serious articles to do encyclopaedic-like knowledge for the wiki - if you're interested in helping give me a shout, otherwise this will be a long term thing to do (and finish off some of the existing projects which need wiki info). Stay tuned!
Andrew Armstrong
IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
