1. Preserving Virtual Worlds: A Project of the NDIIPP Preserving Creative America Initiative Jerome P. McDonough Asst. Professor, GSLIS

2. The NDIIPP Program & Preserving Creative America NDIIPP Goals: –Identify and collect at-risk born-digital content –Build and support a national network of partners working together to preserve digital content. –Develop technical tools and services for preservation. –Encourage public policy to support digital preservation. –Show why digital preservation is important. PCA: eight partnerships to address the long-term preservation of creative content in digital form, including digital photographs, cartoons, motion pictures, sound recordings and video games

3. The Research Problem in a Nutshell You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. How do we make all this last 100 years or more?

4. How we ’ ll approach the problem Investigate existing practices for documenting and archiving games/game play Develop case set of games & interactive fiction for more in-depth examination of impediments to long-term preservation, both social and technical Develop schema and knowledge management practices for preserving digital games Test those practices through archiving case set at institutional repositories at Stanford and UIUC.

5. OAIS AIP for Adventure