[Air-L] archiving virtual worlds for social science research

[Ed Lamoureux]

I do not know how one should go about "properly" archiving the  
interwebthingie.

but I do know that the Library of Congress is very interested in  
trying .  . .  that they've had a task group looking at the issue  
(along with a GOB of other new media-related questions) for about 3  
years now . . . They are tasked with the virtually impossible job of  
archiving as much published stuff as they can. As one can imagine, a  
MAJOR stumbling block with the interwebthingie and the LoC are the IP  
rights associated with copying published stuff. And when I was there  
last March they weren't even talking about virtual worlds . . .

On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Scott MacLeod wrote:

> How would an organization like webarchive.org or someone
> archive all of Second Life, in the aggregate in real time, as well as
> the rest of the virtual worlds. Might one be able to create a record
> of all emerging virtual worlds from day 1? Is there a way to retrieve
> an online SL conversation with actions from years ago? Some virtual
> world web-page centric archives exist, but do other kinds of archives
> exist?
>
> Scott
>
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