[Lab] National Library DigiLab

Jason Cobill jason.cobill at gmail.com
Thu Mar 2 11:59:51 EST 2017


   Here's a Minecraft archive someone was trying to build. It's a daunting
project!
   http://map.crummy.com/

   As of February 16 they were up to 1.7 million records, at 2.57 TB -
probably less than one percent of created spaces.

   -Jason


On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>    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...
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>    FYI, the National Library are opening up their digitization lab for
>>> free to anyone with an interesting project.
>>>
>>>    http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services-public/Pages/digilab.aspx
>>>
>>>    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.
>>>
>>>    -Jason Cobill
>>>
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