[Lab] National Library DigiLab

[Jason Cobill]

   I wonder if anyone's considered archiving Minecraft worlds?
   Imagining all of these enormous virtual spaces disappearing as hard
drives crash and I wonder how much human effort has been lost.

   Are there *historically significant *Minecraft worlds? :) How do we
judge archival fitness? Surely they're creative works.



On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Ryan Stec <ryanstec at gmail.com> wrote:

> perhaps we can have a gentle(wo)manly competition and see who can find the
> oddest thing in the archive to digitize...
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> Ryan
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> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
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>>    FYI, the National Library are opening up their digitization lab for
>> free to anyone with an interesting project.
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>>    http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services-public/Pages/digilab.aspx
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>>    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.
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>>    -Jason Cobill
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