hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.0Archivist and media preservation specialist, studying at University College London. Using digital curation and conservation practice to address the ephemerality of screen heritage, including videogames.
Currenly at BFI's Screen/Play event for London Games Festival. Fascinated to hear about people's career turns, starting in film before moving into games and vice versa.
Also great to see colleagues talking about the upcoming Rogue Trooper Movie and our archiving work behind the scenes. #rebellion
My master's project Premissh won the CLOCKSS certificate of distinction #DPA2024! @iPRES_conf@digipres.club @dpc_chat@digipres.club . Check out the project at: https://www.bishbashbackup.co.uk/. Massive thanks to everyone @ucldis@bird.makeup for the amazing archives program, especially Hannah Smyth who teaches digital curation & nominated me!
Great to see the Australian videogame preservation project 'Play it Again' getting well deserved recognition, being shortlisted for a digital preservation award: https://www.dpconline.org/events/digital-preservation-awards/the-finalists-award-for-research-and-innovation?view=article&id=5286:dpa2024-finalists-ri-play-it-again&catid=100:digital-preservation-awards
Would love to see a similar style project done for British videogames 🕹️ 🎮 👾 #britsoft #dpa2024
Am looking into disk image compression, and wondering whether there's a digital preservation friendly approach for this. Am wondering whether gzipping raw disk images would do the job. Although concerned this may increase risk of data loss, if the file got corrupted.
Is anyone archiving compressed disk images or have recommendations on formatting?
I've been offered a position on the editorial board of Press Start Journal!
https://press-start.gla.ac.uk
Look forward to supporting all the great game studies research getting published. Particularly hoping to see more articles linking to game preservation! 🕹️ 📺 #gamestudies #gamepreservation #gamearchiving
He's kind of a pig deal. 🐖 (Young V&A museum, from general collection display)
