[SPG_Active_Members] Saving video games

[Henry Lowood]

Closer to home:
http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/
Games are only a part of this project, which is an effort of Stanford, 
U. Maryland, U. Illinois, and RIT.

The guys behind the Portsmouth and KEEP projects have been at this a 
long time.

There will be payoffs for software preservation generally from all of 
these efforts, not just for games and virtual worlds.  Also, the 
games/virtual worlds efforts are focusing on player (user) behavior in 
ways that should offer some new ideas for software preservation, as well.

I'm directing one of the Preserving Virtual Worlds teams, in case anyone 
has questions.

Henry

Al Kossow wrote:
>
> On 2/12/09 9:09 AM, "Randall Neff" <randall.neff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> From Techradar.com     linked to from Slashdot.org
>>>       
>> http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/uk-uni-developing-massive-games-emulator-
>> 528487
>>
>> UK university develops massive games emulator
>> Videogames are not pulp cultural artefacts and should be preserved
>>
>> UK researchers at Portsmouth University developing massive, universal
>> games and data emulator to preserve our digital heritage
>>     
>
> This is part of a 3.5 million euro 3 year effort called KEEP.
>
> http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&i
> d=186
>
> http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUE
> RY=011f37a73b31:61ba:091d22f8&RCN=89496
>
> --
>
> Now, if someone would come up with $5m for preservation of something OTHER
> than games...
>
>
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Henry Lowood
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
     Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004 USA
http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood
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