Personal Digital Archiving 2013 Conference
The Personal Digital Archiving conference will provide a two-day-long opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the field of personal archiving to convene for presentations and networking. The conference supports a broad community of practitioners working to ensure long term access for various personal collections and archives. The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Program at the Library of Congress will co-host the conference in conjunction with the University of Maryland Libraries. Bringing Personal Digital Archiving 2013 to the Washington, D.C. region has great potential to expand and enrich the interactions of conference participants by drawing individual attendees not just from the strong community that has developed over the past three years but also from the academic community and cultural heritage institutions located in the national capitol region. Presentations, photos, and other materials from previous Personal Digital Archiving conferences can be found at The Internet Archive.
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George Sanger, also known as “The Fat Man”, is a composer of over 200 different computer and video games. His best-known works include The 7th Guest, Wing Commander, Hard Nova, Maniac Mansion (NES version), Loom, and Tux Racer. Sanger leads the band Team Fat, which also includes fellow video game music composers Dave Govett, Joe McDermott and Kevin Weston Phelan. He created the first General MIDI soundtrack for a game, the first direct-to-MIDI live recording of musicians, the first redbook soundtrack included with the game as a separate disk, the first music for a game that was considered a “work of art,” and the first soundtrack that was considered a selling point for the game. Sanger is on the board of advisors for Game Developer Magazine, and Full Sail’s Game Development Degree program. He is on the Board of Directors of the BEAM Foundation.In 1995, he was the first music producer to be accepted into the National Recording Academy based on his work in games rather than in CD’s, film, or movies. He worked toward the goal of establishing a Grammy category for games, first alone, then years later in the group led by Chance Thomas that achieved this goal.
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