The Computer Game Museum is partner of the major European research project KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable), which is funded by the European Community with 3,15 Mio. Euro. KEEP plays a central role in researching sustainable strategies for the longterm preservation of our digital heritage and is lead by the National Library of France. Further partners besides others are the national libraries of Germany and Holland, the University of Portsmouth and the European Games Developer Federation (EGDF). "Our invitation to join the project is a clear sign of the growing recognition of the cultural impact of our collections" says Andreas Lange, director of the Computer Game Museum. "We are also very glad, that we succeeded on the basis of the research project to establish computer games as cultural artefacts of the same grade as traditional artefacts."
The outcome from KEEP will be a milestone towards our aim to preserve works of digital interactive culture and making them accessible in the long term.
KEEP starts in February 2009 and will run for three years.

 

Further details and informations about the other partners can be found here.

 

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