KEEP Workshops 2011-2012

The kick-off meeting of the project was held in Paris hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The international Conference Computer Games / Players / Game Cultures: State and Perspectives of Digital Game Studies will take place in Magdeburg, Germany, from 19 to 21 March 2009, starting with an informal get-together in the evening of March, 18th. The conference is organized and hosted by the Chair in Media Research and Adult Education (Prof. Dr. Johannes Fromme) at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. The Conference simultaneously functions as the "Spring Conference" of the Media Education Commission of the German Association for Educational Science.

KEEP will be presented in an attached meeting of the SIG Games of the German Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft/ GfM (Society for Media Studies).

Link to the event

The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects is part of the Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (DigCCurr) project.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven from Koninklijke Bibliotheek will be available at the conference to introduce KEEP to all interested visitors.

http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/

Serious Games conference will be held in Berlin. Mr Andreas Lange from Computerspiele Museum will make a presentation at the conference about the preservation efforts of the emulation community and will introduce KEEP project.

http://www.assembly.org/summer08

Exact date: 15.5.2009 12:00 am
Title of Mr Lange's presentation: "Save Game"

http://inka.fhtw-berlin.de/kui/?hl=en

On 19-20 May 2009, Nordic Game will celebrate the sixth gathering the Nordic and international games industry, academics and the media in Malmö, Sweden, focusing on one of the most exciting growth sectors in the entertainment business.
Nordic Game 2009 is expected to draw 1500 participants from the Nordic region and around the globe, as well as industry and educational exhibitors and extensive international press coverage.
Featuring a series of innovative programs and many prominent speakers from the region and abroad, and introducing new opportunities for attendees to meet and do business, the Nordic Game conference and Career Expo is one of the most highly regarded events of its kind in Europe.

KEEP project will hold a workshop at the Conference on 19th May focusing on introducing the project and developing cooperation methods with the game industry representatives.

Agenda of the workshop

Moderator: Dr. Malte Behrmann, General Secretary EGDF

Session 1: Cultural relevance of European preservation of Videogames

10.45 Keynote: Henrik Bennetsen, Stanford University, CA, USA
11.15 - 12.30 Panel

• Andreas Lange, Computerspielemuseum (D)
• Pierre Echegaray, Bibliotheque nationale de France (F)
• Sten Selander (SE)
• Thierry Platon (Game Designer) (F)

Today we perceive Games as cultural goods. They play an important role in media perception. The very success of computing technology has created a serious and growing challenge of how to preserve access to digital material produced on obsolete machines. Over time individuals and organisations build up digital assets comprising a wide variety of digital objects ranging from plain text to multimedia applications and websites. Cultural heritage organisations are particularly sensitive to the threat of major data loss resulting from technical obsolescence. Although primarily aimed at those involved in Cultural Heritage, such as memory institutions and games museums, the Emulation Access Platform can also serve the needs of a wide range of organisations and individuals because of its universal approach. Accessing digital material requires the mediation not just of a computer but a computer compatible with the preserved material, embedded into the game developer community.

What cultural implications do we need to respect, if we consider this topic sincerely?

Session 2: Technical challenges in computer game preservation and emulation

13.45 Keynote: Dan Pinchbeck, University of Portsmouth (UK)
14.15 -15.30 Panel

• Vincent Jougin, JOGUIN (F)
• David Michel, Tesella (UK)
• Hendrik Lesser, Videospielkulturverein München (D)
• Dino Dini Game Designer (UK & I)

KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The central goal of KEEP is to provide new tools for accessing any digital object both at present and in the long term. This will involve the specification of file formats and the production of transfer tools exploited within a framework, and taking into account possible legal and technical issues. Overall, KEEP will create the foundation for the next generation of permanent access strategies based on emulation. Long-term preservation of digital objects not only entails secure storage and management, but also includes the development and execution of strategies to access and render these objects, now and in the future.

What technical specifications needs KEEP to respect?

http://www.nordicgame.com/

Between 8 and 10 July 2009 KEEP partners organised three meetings aiming at discussing the progress of the project and developing future plans. On the first day a technical meeting was held where issues related the Emulation Framework and Virtual Machine have been analysed together with the user requirements. The second day has been devoted mostly to the all-staff meeting covering topics like legal issues, management structure, results of the discussion with emulation experts, dissemination tasks, etc. On the third day the Project Management Board made decisions regarding the every-day management and monitoring of the project.

The meetings were hosted by the University of Portsmouth who took excellent care of all participants.

Please find some selected pictures from the meeting in the gallery below.

Portsmouth Meeting

Portsmouth welcome

Portsmouth discussions

Portsmouth discussion

ASSEMBLY Summer 2009 - Finland's largest computer festival in Helsinki, 6th to 9th of August 2009.

ASSEMBLY is a four day computer festival , in which thousands of people and their computers spend the long weekend by meeting friends, playing games, surfing on the net, talking on IRC and enjoying the great productions from the demoscene.

About KEEP session at the ASSEMBLY 2009:

For more than a decade emulators have been used widely within the gamer community to maintain access to old games independently of their original hardware. An European Community funded research project has now been established with the express purpose of harnessing experience in this area and utilizing emulation as a effective and practical component of the long-term preservation strategy of cultural heritage organizations.

The seminar is planned as an open forum to introduce KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) and to discuss emulator-centric long-term preservation topics with emulator programmers and with a wider audience.

More information: http://www.assembly.org/summer09/seminars/sessions#emulation

http://www.assembly.org/summer09/seminars/speakers

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom, Tuesday 1st September - Friday 4th September 2009.

The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) is an organisation that embraces all aspects of game studies, and the conference aims to provide a diverse platform for discussion and a lively forum for debate.

KEEP will organise a Game Preservation Panel (led by University of Portsmouth) at the conference. More information will be added soon.

Visit DiGRA 2009 homepage

On October 7, 2009, the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) will sponsor a free, one-day event, Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content at the California Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California. This IIPC event immediately follows iPRES 2009, the 6th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, held at the Mission Bay Conference Center on October 5-6.

More information: http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php

KEEP consortium will be represented by Jeffrey van der Hoeven from the National Library of the Netherlands who will be a speaker in the session on digital preservation actions, together with David Pearson from the National Library of Australia. (Conference topic: Are emulation or migration feasible preservation strategies?)

The project consortium members will introduce KEEP to the students at the Scientific University of Grenoble in the building of the UFR-IMAG (department of computer science). The presentations will cover different digital preservation issues and what KEEP project will develop in the field.

The students are welcome at the event to ask questions, comment the discussions on the different issues introduced, such as the Emulation Framework or metadata standards.

The next regular meeting of KEEP consortium will take place in July 29th - 30th, 2010 in Frankfurt and will be hosted by the National Library of Germany. There will be a half day session dedicated to Project Management Board Meeting, another half day for All-staff meeting and 1 day dedicated to Technical Support Team meeting. More information and detailed agenda will be distributed by the project coordinator.

KEEP Workshop, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

22 - 23 September 2011

Note: This event will be partly conducted in French .

There is no charge for attendance but places are limited

This workshop will present the context of the KEEP project, the technical and legal stakes linked to preservation. It will present KEEP’s outcomes, as well as the main issues linked to transfer tools and emulation.

The Paris workshop will also include demonstrations and invite participants to test the functionalities of the different tools developed within the project.

Thus, during these two days, the consortium will expose the scope of issues linked to emulation, and will focus in detail the following topics:

• Emulation as part of an integrated digital preservation strategy
• Legal issues when using emulation tools
• Media transfer : presentation, discussion and demonstration
• The KEEP Emulation Framework : presentation (architecture, tools and services), discussion, demonstration and hands-on testing by delegates
• Metadata in an emulation environment : presentation, discussion, demonstration and testing
• The KEEP Virtual Machine : architecture, portability and functionality
• Innovative services within emulation, computer science and video game communities : interaction and discussion
• Users and participant requirements and feedback

Download more information about this event here (English version)

Ou telechargez la version francaise ici

Bookings can be made at

http://keep-paris.eventbrite.com

Contact : elisabeth.freyre@bnf.fr / guillaume.badou-barthelemy@bnf.fr

KEEP Workshop, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag

26 - 27 October 2011

*** A detailed Programme will be available shortly ***

This Workshop will be focusing on the technical and legal aspects of emulation in the context of digital preservation, as well as the main issues linked to transfer tools and emulation.

The Den Haag workshop will also include demonstrations and invite participants to test the functionalities of the different tools developed within the project.

What will you learn?

• How to include emulation services in your business
• What it takes to transfer data from old media carriers
• Legal issues of old media and emulation
• Working with KEEP Emulation Framework (EF)
• What metadata is required for emulation
• How to ensure portability with the KEEP Virtual Machine
• Users and participant requirements and feedback

Who should attend?

• Digital collection specialists
• Digital Preservation officers
• Managers with interest to preserve data
• ICT specialists working on preservation activities
• Anyone with a professional, commercial or academic interest in the use of emulation tools and services

Bookings can be made at http://keep-denhaag.eventbrite.com

INFuture 2011

KEEP Workshop Zagreb to be held as part of , Croatia - venue will be announced shortly

10 - 11 November 2011

KEEP Workshop Zagreb, Croatia will be held as a series of self contained modules on days 2 & 3 of the INFuture Conference (Thursday 10 & Friday 11 November). This will form a stream within the INFuture 2011 Conference ( http://infoz.ffzg.hr/INFuture/Conference.aspx ) and admission is free of charge to all registered conference delegates. Each module will include both theoretical and practical work where appropriate and will enable delegates to combine attendance at our workshop with other parts of the conference.

** A detailed programme will be available shortly **

Registration is now open for INFuture 2011 click here for conference registration page.

These workshops will include sessions on the following topics: details to follow

It is not necessary to reserve for these individual modules in advance of the conference but will be possible to pre-book for individual modules at the venue.

KEEP Workshop, Universita Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata

29 - 30 November 2011

This event is free to attend but delegates are asked to make a single €20 contribution upon arrival towards the cost of lunches and coffees served on both days (receipts will be issued).

You can download the full programme from

http://keep-project.eu/downloads/keep_roma_programme.pdf

There is also a map of the area around the Tor Vergata showing the location of the event at

http://keep-project.eu/downloads/tor_vergata.pdf

This workshop will include sessions on the following topics:

• The business and technical justification for including emulation within a preservation strategy
• Legal issues when using emulation tools
• Media transfer: presentation, discussion and demonstration
• KEEP Emulation Framework: presentation (architecture, tools and services), discussion, demonstrating and testing
• Metadata in an emulation environment: presentation, discussion, demonstration and testing
• The KEEP Virtual Machine: architecture, portability and functionalities
• Interactive sessions about innovative services within emulation, computer science and video game communities
• There will also be demonstrations of the KEEP tools and opportunities for delegates to test them for themselves and, we hope, provide details of their requirements and feedback

Bookings are now CLOSED

KEEP Workshop - Novotel Hotel Cardiff - 24 - 25 January 2012

This is the final international workshop of the project and features a special guest speaker - Professor Ian Hargreaves, author of a highly influential report on the future of IP. Bookings are now open for this free-to-attend event in Cardiff, Wales

Full details can be found at the bookings page:

http://keep-cardiff.eventbrite.com

The detailed programme for this event is available for download directly from

http://www.keep-project.eu/downloads/keep_cardiff.pdf

Joining Forces International expert workshop about digital preservation

Date: Feb, 1st 2012, 10:00 - 17:00

Organized by: Computerspielemuseum Berlin

in cooperation with:

• SIG Emulation of the German competence network for digital preservation nestor and the SIG Long term preservation/ Emulation which is part of the German Association for Informatics
• bwFLA project (Baden-Württemberg Functional Longterm Archiving and Access)
• Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) (European research project 2011-2013)

Details here

KEEP Workshop - German National Library - 3rd February 2012

We are running an additional 1 day event in Frankfurt.

Detailed information is available and bookings are now open at:

http://keep-dnb.eventbrite.co.uk/

Location:

Room GD 404, German National Library,
Adickesallee 1,
60322 Frankfurt am Main

This workshop will include sessions on the following topics:

• The business and technical justification for including emulation within a preservation strategy
• Legal issues when using emulation tools
• Media transfer: presentation, discussion and demonstration
• KEEP Emulation Framework: presentation (architecture, tools and services), discussion, demonstrating and testing
• Metadata in an emulation environment: presentation, discussion, demonstration and testing
• The KEEP Virtual Machine: architecture, portability and functionalities
• Interactive sessions about innovative services within emulation, computer science and video game communities
• There will also be demonstrations of the KEEP tools and opportunities for delegates to test them for themselves and, we hope, provide details of their requirements and feedback

You can download the programme from:

http://www.keep-project.eu/downloads/KEEP-dnb.pdf