A conceptual model for video games and interactive media

Jett, Jacob; Sacchi, Simone; Lee, Jin Ha; Clarke, Rachel Ivy

doi:10.1002/asi.23409

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“…This confusion about conceptual level of description inspired development of a conceptual model to inform catalogers about exactly which entity they are describing (e.g., game, game edition, local release, etc. ; Jett, Sacchi, Lee, & Clarke, in press).…”

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Empirical evaluation of metadata for video games and interactive media

Lee

Clarke

Perti

2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Despite increasing interest in and acknowledgment of the significance of video games, current descriptive practices are not sufficiently robust to support searching, browsing, and other access behaviors from diverse user groups. To address this issue, the Game Metadata Research Group at the University of Washington Information School, in collaboration with the Seattle Interactive Media Museum, worked to create a standardized metadata schema. This metadata schema was empirically evaluated using multiple approaches-collaborative review, schema testing, semistructured user interview, and a large-scale survey. Reviewing and testing the schema revealed issues and challenges in sourcing the metadata for particular elements, determining the level of granularity for data description, and describing digitally distributed games. The findings from user studies suggest that users value various subject and visual metadata, information about how games are related to each other, and data regarding game expansions/alterations such as additional content and networked features. The metadata schema was extensively revised based on the evaluation results, and we present the new element definitions from the revised schema in this article. This work will serve as a platform and catalyst for advances in the design and use of video game metadata.

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Empirical evaluation of metadata for video games and interactive media

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2015

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“…To reconcile some of the aforementioned issues that additional content presents for cultural heritage institutions, we propose a new model (Figure 1) that better defines and represents additional content and its related descriptive information [6]. This model is designed to represent video games as they are published across various markets.…”

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The Problem of "Additional Content" in Video Games

Lee

Jett

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2015

Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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Additional content for video games such as mods (modifications) or DLC (downloadable content) are increasingly prevalent in the current video game market. For cultural heritage institutions with video game collections, such content introduces various philosophical and practical challenges on multiple aspects including acquisition, description, access/use, and preservation. In this paper, we discuss these challenges and propose a solution that can alleviate the problem of managing a digital library collection including video games with additional content. While our discussion and proposed solution focus on video games, they also have broader implications for cultural heritage institutions that manage other types of digital and multimedia objects with additional content as well as serial publications.

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“…The latter activity has been pursued in three ways with respect to video games: describing aspects of video game design [17], describing attributes and properties of video games that support archival provenance modeling [13], and describing entities, attributes, and relationships that support rich bibliographic description of video games [10,8,7]. All of these efforts are responding to a burgeoning need to preserve and examine video games, and games in general, as rich cultural heritage objects.…”

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An Ontological Framework for Describing Games

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2015

Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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This paper describes an ontological framework for game description. Games are a multi-billion dollar industry and are cultural heritage objects studied by a growing number of scholars. The conceptual model described here supports the description of both individual games and relationships among games, their versions and variants for more effective discovery, more reliable provenance, and detailed scoping of copyright, patent, and trademark claims.

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A conceptual model for video games and interactive media

Cited by 21 publications

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Empirical evaluation of metadata for video games and interactive media

Empirical evaluation of metadata for video games and interactive media

The Problem of "Additional Content" in Video Games

An Ontological Framework for Describing Games

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