KEEP annoucement

What list? Lee Courtney --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote: > From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> > Subject: KEEP annoucement > To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org > Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 6:34 PM > > > I am glad to announce, that a major European research > project, which is related to the preservation of complex > digital artefacts, has just started. KEEP (Keeping Emulation > Environments Portable) is funded by the European Community > with 3,15 Mio. Euro will go on from now for three years. > Aim of the project is to utilize the preservation tools, > which are mainly created in the gamer community, for a > broader range of users and purposes. The impact of the > project lies also in the structure of the consortium itself: > for the first time traditional memory institutions like the > national libraries of France, Germany and Netherlands and > researchers with a background in humanitities (University of > Portsmouth) come together with organisations specialized in > games resp. their preservation (Computer Game Museum, > European Games Developer Federation ) within a common > research effort in such a scale. I am pretty sure, that we > will be able to boost the awareness of the need to preserve > the gaming culture on that basis and of course provide > concrete preservation tools and interfaces to do the job. > > > > More details about the project can be found here: > > > http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=0…