<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div> Here's a Minecraft archive someone was trying to build. It's a daunting project!<br><div> <a href="http://map.crummy.com/">http://map.crummy.com/</a><br><br></div><div> As of February 16 they were up to 1.7 million records, at 2.57 TB - probably less than one percent of created spaces.<br><br></div><div> -Jason<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Jason Cobill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div> I wonder if anyone's considered archiving Minecraft worlds?<br> Imagining all of these enormous virtual spaces disappearing as hard drives crash and I wonder how much human effort has been lost.<br><br></div> Are there <i>historically significant </i>Minecraft worlds? :) How do we judge archival fitness? Surely they're creative works.<br><br><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Ryan Stec <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryanstec@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryanstec@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">perhaps we can have a gentle(wo)manly competition and see who can find the oddest thing in the archive to digitize... </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_201390520043950177m_8548769920415437549gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#999999">Ryan<br><br><br></font></div><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div><font color="#999999"></font></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_201390520043950177h5">On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Jason Cobill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_201390520043950177h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div> FYI, the National Library are opening up their digitization lab for free to anyone with an interesting project.<br><br> <a href="http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services-public/Pages/digilab.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/s<wbr>ervices-public/Pages/digilab.a<wbr>spx</a><br><br></div> This could be a good way to scan and preserve non-traditional materials that might have been passed over by the librarians - artist's sketchbooks, engineering notebooks, wiring diagrams, experiment results, etc.<span class="m_201390520043950177m_8548769920415437549HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="m_201390520043950177m_8548769920415437549HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> -Jason Cobill<br></font></span></div>
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