[Lab] National Library DigiLab

[Ryan Stec]

Interesting repository of worlds and fascinating how integrated it has to
be to the software. In the process of digital preservation there has always
been this complex discussion about authenticity... if you are trying to
save games what are you saving? Is a software emulator enough to capture
the experience of the eighties and nineties 8bit games?

Digital art trailblazers Rhizome have been thinking through this for quite
a while. They have published things back in the nineties, but here is a
somewhat recent document from them.

http://media.rhizome.org/artbase/documents/Digital-Preservation-Practices-and-the-Rhizome-ArtBase.pdf



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On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>    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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