KEEP annoucement

[Al Kossow]

 From another mailing list:

 > I am glad to announce, that a major European research project, which is related to the preservation of complex digital artefacts, has just started. KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) is 
funded by the European Community with 3,15 Mio. Euro will go on from now for three years.  Aim of the project is to utilize the preservation tools, which are mainly created in the gamer community, for 
a broader range of users and purposes. The impact of the project lies also in the structure of the consortium itself: for the first time traditional memory institutions like the national libraries of 
France, Germany and Netherlands and researchers with a background in humanitities (University of Portsmouth) come together with organisations specialized in games resp. their preservation (Computer 
Game Museum, European Games Developer Federation ) within a common research effort in such a scale. I am pretty sure, that we will be able to boost the awareness of the need to preserve the gaming 
culture on that basis and of course provide concrete preservation tools and interfaces to do the job.
 >
 > More details about the project can be found here:
 > http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&id=186