Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges
that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are …

Purpose Multiple studies have illustrated that the needs of various users seeking descriptive
bibliographic data for pop culture resources (eg manga, anime, video games) have not been …

Disk images (bitstreams extracted from physical media) can play an essential role in the
acquisition and management of digital collections by serving as containers that support data …

The complexities of the intricate geospatial resources and formats make preservation and
distribution of GIS data difficult even among experts. The proliferation of, for instance, KML …

Documenting Videogame Communities : A Study of Community Production of Information in
Social-Media Environments and its Implications for Videogame Preservation diva-portal.org …

This article argues that unplayability must be a considered component of game analysis and
further discussed in new media studies. The concept that games cannot be or should not be …

Introduction. The aim of this paper is to form a framework capable of theorizing how virtual
communities are entangled with their new media environments, thereby contributing to the …

The concept of significant properties, properties that must be identified and preserved in any
successful digital object preservation, is now common in data curation. Although this notion …

The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System has been extraordinarily
influential within the digital preservation community. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project …

Video games are both information objects as well as experiences of play. However, current
methods of game preservation often fail to capture the full gaming experience. To address …