video-game-resources

Resources on video game metadata and preservation.

Sibling repositories: open-workflows, time-based-media-art, and analog-inspection.

Contents

• Concerns and potential topics for exploration
• Metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies
• Metadata user analysis
• Additional reading and resources
• Archives, libraries, etc.
• How to Contribute
• Code of Conduct
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements

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Concerns and potential topics for exploration

• Oral history and documentation
• Widely accepted metadata schema
• Controlled vocabulary
• (Proprietary) Hardware and software
• Connecting with international communities
• Community archiving
• Emulation
• Copyright
• Gameplay preservation
• Standards for preservation
• Corporate archives vs. educational institutions (e.g. museums)
• Ancillary material (e.g. marketing assets, box art)

Metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies

• A Conceptual Model and Metadata Schema for Video Games and Interactive Media (latest release 9-16-2020) | link
• Game Metadata and Citation Project Controlled Vocabularies (accessed 12-6-2022) | link
• Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement - Software and Video Games (accessed 12-6-2022) | link

Metadata user analysis

• Full Steam Ahead: A Conceptual Analysis of User-Supplied Tags on Steam (05-01-2016) | link
• Videogames metadata schema through the analysis of Steam user tags (12-22-2017) | link
• Metadata Virtual Reality User Study (2016) | link

Additional reading and resources

• Empirical Evaluation of Metadata for Video Games and Interactive Media | link
• Analog Game Metadata Schema: AGMS | link
• UCLA Game Lab | link
• Software Preservation Network | link
• Pixelvetica (Language: French) | link
• GameLab UNIL-EPFL (Language: French) | link
• Preserving Virtual Worlds | link
• EVE, offline: how do you archive a universe? | link
• Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters | link
• The Variable Media Network | link
• Aaru Data Preservation Suite | link
• Leveling Up Emulation: The Benefits of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in Video Game Preservation | link

Archives, libraries, etc.

• The Strong National Museum of Play | link
• Museum of the Game | link
• Library of Congress | link
• Video Game History Foundation | link
• American Classic Arcade Museum | link
• Computer History Museum | link

How to Contribute

Please add your own resources on video game preservation to the list above. Order does not dictate preference. Appropriate additions may include:

• metadata schemas
• preservation plans
• case studies

For help contributing to this repository or other issues, please submit a New Issue with your question and we'll get back to you.

Code of Conduct

Actions taken in this repository, associated pull requests and issue tracker forms should adhere to the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct guidelines.

Copyright

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Acknowledgements

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