Download - Preserving Virtual Worlds
Preserving Virtual Worlds
Jerome McDonough
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Henry Lowood
Green Library
Stanford University
Representation of Complex Objects
& Collection Development &Interpretive Activities
PVW Project Goals
To help develop mechanisms and methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction by Investigating preservation issues through a series
of archiving case studies; Developing basic standards for metadata and
content representation; Archiving key representative content; and Building community awareness of issues.
Project Outline
Phase I: Background research on preserving interactive behavior and case set definition
Phase II: Development of schema/ontologies necessary for representation and contextual information and recommendations for best practice in use of wrappers
Phase III: Implementation and testing via ingest of content at Stanford and UIUC.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages,all alike.
XML Ontologies vs. The BFG 9000
Preserving DOOM
DooM 1 DooM 2 DooM 3
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesDOOMWAD
BinariesDOOMWAD
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
SourceCode
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BinariesDOOMWAD
BinariesDOOMWAD
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesMap &Texture
BinariesMap &Texture
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
Preserving DOOM
DooM 1 DooM 2 DooM 3
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesDOOMWAD
BinariesDOOMWAD
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesDOOMWAD
BinariesDOOMWAD
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesMap &Texture
BinariesMap &Texture
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
Versions (Works)
Preserving DOOMVersion???
Preserving DOOM
DooM 1 DooM 2 DooM 3
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesDOOMWAD
BinariesDOOMWAD
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesDOOMWAD
BinariesDOOMWAD
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
SourceCode
MediaAssets
BinariesMap &Texture
BinariesMap &Texture
InstallScripts
AlteredOS Files
Expressions
OAIS & FRBR Ontologies
DOOM 1DOOM 1
MS-DOS EXEMS-DOS EXESpecificationSpecification
DOOM WADDOOM WADSpecificationSpecification
Content Content InformationInformationData ObjectData Object
Representation Representation InformationInformation
PC ArchitecturePC Architecture(circa 1993)(circa 1993)
Speed Runs,Speed Runs,MODSMODS
MS-DOS 6.0MS-DOS 6.0
Preservation Preservation Desc.Desc.Context InformationContext Information
Other MediaOther Media(Movie, Comics)(Movie, Comics)
PREMISPREMISRecordRecord
Provenance InformationProvenance Information
Intel 486 DevIntel 486 DevManualManual
DOOM WADDOOM WADDOOMDOOMBinariesBinaries
Super Work
Work
Expression
Manifestation
Item
SuccessorWhole/partTransformation
RevisionTranslationSuccessorWhole/PartTransformation
AlternateWhole/Part
ReproductionWhole/Part
Representation Information
Context
Provenance
Provenance Metadata
Technical Metadata
Packaging DOOM
<descMD> <mdWrap> <rdf:Description rdf:about=“File URI”> <pvw:RepInfo>URI for Rep Info</pvw:RepInfo> </rdf:Description> </mdWrap></descMD><fileSec> <fileGrp> <file href=“File URI” /> </fileGrp></fileSec>
<ore:aggregates rdf:resource=”File URI”><rdf:Description rdf:about=“File URI”> <pvw:RepInfo>URI for Rep Info</pvw:RepInfo></rdf:Description>
PVWOntology
Packaging DOOM
DOOM
DOOM 3DOOM 2DOOM 1
BinarySource Code
Content Files
BinarySource Code BinarySource Code
Content FilesContent Files
Content FilesContent Files
Content Files
Content FilesContent Files
Content Files
Content FilesContent Files
Content Files
Content FilesContent Files
Content Files
Content FilesContent Files
Content Files
Superwork
Expression
Work
Manifestation
= Packaging File (METS, OAI-ORE, XFDU, etc.)
Collection Development & Interpretive Activities
Video courtesy of Internet Archive’s Archiving VirtualWorld’s Moving Image Collectionhttp://www.archive.org/details/virtual_worlds
Gaming as Best Case Scenario Digital Preservation
A Cautionary Tale
A Cautionary Tale
Humanities Data Curation
Humanities Data Curation
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Thank you
For more information: http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw
Jerome McDonough