Contents

pp v-viii

Foreword

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Contributors

pp xiii-xxvi

Glossary

pp xxvii-xxxiv

Introduction

pp xxxv-xlviii

Part 1 - Why and what to preserve: creativity versus preservation

pp 1-2

1 - Standing on the shoulders of heavily armed giants – why history matters for game development

pp 3-12

2 - Archaeology versus anthropology: what can truly be preserved?

pp 13-20

3 - Make or break? Concerning the value of redundancy as a creative strategy

pp 21-30

4 - Between code and space: the challenges of preserving complex digital creativity in contemporary arts practice

pp 31-46

Part 2 - The memory institution/data archival perspective

pp 47-48

5 - Preservation of digital objects at the Archaeology Data Service

pp 49-62

6 - Preserving games for museum collections and public display: the National Videogame Archive

pp 63-72

7 - Bridging the gap in digital art preservation: interdisciplinary reflections on authenticity, longevity and potential collaborations

pp 73-90

8 - Laying a trail of breadcrumbs – preparing the path for preservation

pp 91-106

Part 3 - Digital preservation approaches, practice and tools

pp 107-108

Part 3.1 - A good place to start: software preservation

pp 109-110

9 - Digital preservation and curation: the danger of overlooking software

pp 111-124

10 - How do I know that I have preserved software?

pp 125-140

Part 3.2 - Tools and techniques

pp 141-142

11 - Digital preservation strategies for visualizations and simulations

pp 143-154

12 - The ISDA tools: preserving 3D digital content

pp 155-166

Part 3.3 - Metadata, paradata and documentation

pp 167-168

13 - Ecologies of research and performance: preservation challenges in the London Charter

pp 169-184

14 - A tangled web: metadata and problems in game preservation

pp 185-200

15 - Metadata for preserving computing environments

pp 201-216

16 - Preserving games environments via TOTEM, KEEP and Bletchley Park

pp 217-234

17 - Documenting the context of software art works through socialtheory: towards a vocabulary for context classification

pp 235-256