Preserving Virtual Worlds

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Preserving Virtual Worlds
because a thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Project Goals

• To help develop mechanisms and methods for
  preserving digital games and interactive fiction
  by
• developing basic standards for metadata and
  content representation
• investigating preservation issues through a
  series of archiving case studies

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Key Deliverables

• Development of metadata schema and wrapper
  recommendations
• Archiving of key representative content
• Development of generalizable archiving approaches
  for preserving this content.
• Community education and awareness-building.

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Project Partners

• Graduate School of Library Information Science,
  UIUC
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the
  Humanities, University of Maryland
• College of Computing Information Sciences,
  Rochester Institute of Technology
• Stanford University Libraries
• Linden Lab

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Project Outline

• Phase I Background Research
• Define and scope a case set
• Background research on preserving complex
  interactive behavior
• Background research for schema development

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Project Outline

• Phase II Development
• Develop new schema necessary for capturing
  representation information
• Develop new schema necessary for capturing
  context information
• Develop recommendations for best practices on use
  of existing wrapper formats

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Project Outline

• Phase III Implementation Testing
• Ingest selection of games/interactive fiction at
  institutional repositories at Stanford University
  and UIUC.
• Analyze institutional repositories capabilities
  to support metadata necessary for the curation of
  games and interactive fiction

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Project Case Set Adventure
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all
alike.
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Project Case Set Mindwheel
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Project Case Set Mystery House
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Project Case Set Spacewar
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Project Case Set Star Raiders
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Project Case Set Tetris
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Project Case Set DOOM
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Project Case Set Warcraft
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Project Case Set Second Life
International Spaceflight Museum
Democracy Island
Life to the Second Power
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A few things we know so far

• The OAIS reference models notion of an
  information package does seem like it can stretch
  to encompass software, but
• Representation and Context information can be
  extensive, difficult and expensive to collect,
  and proprietary.
• When preserving complex software, the question of
  emulation or migration inevitably becomes
  emulation and migration.
• Hardware matters.
• Gamers are willing to make LARGE investments of
  time to support preservation efforts.

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More Info
Website http//ndiipp.uiuc.edu/pca/ Contacts Je
rome McDonough, PI jmcdonou_at_uiuc.edu 217-244-5
916 Janet Eke, Project Coordinator jeke_at_uiuc
.edu Patricia Hswe, Project Coordinator phswe
_at_uiuc.edu