This paper presents a comprehensive research study that investigates the perspectives of video game preservation from three distinct target groups consisting of game developers, game museums, and video game enthusiasts. Each target group expressed their thoughts and opinions regarding game preservation efforts and the use of emulation as a preservation method. Through a mixed-method approach, including questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, the study collected both quantitative and qualitative data from 148 respondents. By examining the responses, different challenges, obstacles, and possible improvements were identified for each target group. The findings of this study revealed several common themes among the participants. The importance of collaboration and communication between all three target groups can help improve current video game preservation efforts.

Der grundlegende Wandel in der bibliothekarischen Arbeitswelt infolge der digitalen Veränderungen rückt das Aufgabengebiet der Bestandserhaltung scheinbar in das Licht, ewig gestrig dem Alten verhaftet zu sein. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass das Ziel der Bestandserhaltung notwendig der Originalerhalt ist und dass sie sich am Analogen orientieren muss. Daraus folgt die Brisanz der Tatsache, dass Bestandserhaltung verstärkt ins Bewusstsein der Politik und der Öffentlichkeit zu heben ist. / The fundamental change in library work owing to the digital changes seems to show the area of preservation of collections as clinging firmly to the past. The report shows that the goal of preservation of collections necessarily is the preservation of originals and that it has to be orientated towards analogue subjects. From this follows the explosiveness of the fact that preservation of collections must increasingly be brought to the notice of politics and the public.

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Comparative approaches in historic preservation usually involve two or more different buildings. The old Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts allows for a comparative approach with the same building, but in two different eras: one where the clamor to replace the library building came close to resulting in its destruction (1960s); the other, 35 years later, where the question of the building’s survival was never in doubt, never even raised (2000s). From its earliest days, serious design and workmanship flaws have plagued the structural integrity of the monumental Victorian Gothic building that stands in the center of Pittsfield. Its grand space proved inadequate for the functioning of a public library. Yet it continues to survive, and in 2014, another major preservation project is underway to address the bulging of the masonry on the front façade. A narrative of the history of this building reveals broader trends in public attitudes towards the preservation of our cultural heritage, and insights into the contributing elements that provide justification for preservation as well as into the role of the public historian in connecting preservation with the community.

The preservation of cultural landscapes takes an understanding of a region’s shared history, their sense of place, and the sensory and spatial behavior of their appropriated spaces. That being said preserving cultural landscapes in urban areas can be especially challenging. They are constantly growing and evolving which requires special considerations to avoid suffocation of the space and the inhabitants’ spatial behavior. The practice of preserving cultural landscapes on an urban scale has been relatively lacking in the United States. The same preservation strategies are used for various types of cultural landscapes that have their own characteristics and stories. Different tactics and mentalities for varying cultural landscapes hasn’t been thoroughly investigated or acknowledged. That being said, the underdeveloped strategies provided a challenging and yet free interpretation of what preservation of cultural landscapes may look like. This paper discusses the key components that were used as a guide to prepare a plan and design a contemporary intervention for promoting a cultural landscape in a city located in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Harlingen, Texas is a unique border town with its varying layers of settlement and inhabitancy has created a particular assemblage of people from a diverse set of backgrounds and heritages. It holds a distinctive location in the southern portion of Texas as it sits closely to the Mexican border as well as the coast of the Gulf of Mexico which has created a distinctive dynamic between nature and culture. If one were to observe Harlingen in all its qualities a question arises: How can we celebrate Harlingen as a unique culture and historic resource while allowing the small urban setting in South Texas to continue developing and growing. With the understanding of Harlingen’s unique character, history, and sense of place this paper works to implement the components of preserving a ‘living cultural landscape’ where consideration of preserving the physical aspects as well as Harlingen’s daily life are the main priority.

A Most Endangered list is a common programmatic tool used by historic preservation advocacy groups. These lists allow the organizations to focus their support on a small, representative selection of threatened historic resources. While these programs are widely accepted and implemented, there has been no formal investigation into their use or study of the subtle differences that make each program unique. This thesis analyzes statewide Most Endangered programs with the goal of determining if there are variables that can enhance the program’s effectiveness at accomplishing the organization’s goals. Organizations that wish to examine the usability or effectiveness of their Most Endangered programs do not have easy access to the information that is needed for an objective analysis. This is the current situation at Preservation Texas, Texas’ statewide preservation advocacy organization. The staff there is currently evaluating the organization’s Most Endangered program, making this document a timely and useful tool for their use. This thesis seeks to provide a base from which Preservation Texas, or any preservation advocacy organization, can begin to examine their own program’s operations. For this project I performed research on statewide Most Endangered programs at both macro and micro levels. An initial investigation of the web-presence of these programs enabled me to make broad determinations about their operations. I then selected five of these organizations for a closer study. Through interviews and additional research, it was possible for me to begin to compare and contrast the programs while analyzing their differences from an impartial perspective. Through this careful study, I developed a list of eight criteria that are indicative of an effective Most Endangered program. In the final chapter I use these eight criteria to analyze Most Endangered programs, specifically the one operated by Preservation Texas. By applying my research and observations, I am able to reach constructive conclusions about the operations and functions of Preservation Texas’ Most Endangered program. While this thesis was written for the benefit of a specific organization, the findings are applicable to any organization that has, or is thinking about starting, a Most Endangered list. / text

A tese \"Antigo e novo nas intervenções em preexistências históricas: a experiência brasileira (1980-2010)\", vem pautada na reflexão dos recentes diálogos entre antigo e novo, permanência e inovação, preservação e mudança, que fazem parte do cenário da produção arquitetônica contemporânea em que se assiste, cada vez mais, edifícios antigos tornaremse parte de uma nova história da cidade. Observa-se que o que deveria ser exceção tornou-se prática constante no cenário da arquitetura atual: em um monumento de valor histórico e artístico nem sempre se tem como objetivo, em uma intervenção, preservar o seu protagonismo e transmiti-lo em sua essência para o futuro; nem sempre seus valores estéticos e suas características históricas são respeitados; nem sempre a intervenção tem como foco o monumento, mas sim a projetação do novo associada a ele. E o que deveria ser a prática usual virou exceção. Cada vez mais encontramos intervenções na preexistência que se distanciam do rigor metodológico do restauro. Com variadas denominações - restauro, reabilitação, readequação, revitalização, reciclagem -, as ações de intervenção operam sempre com a dimensão do tempo: o tempo de vida do monumento; o tempo durante o qual ele foi submetido à degradação; as sucessivas camadas de tempo que a ele foram acrescentadas pelas transformações por que passou; e o tempo que lhe resta como monumento vivo. A fim de esclarecer essas e outras questões decorrentes dessa abordagem, busca-se investigar como se articulam as premissas teóricas e os critérios de projeto adotados nas intervenções em edifícios de valor histórico e artístico - onde julgamos encontrar-se o cerne do problema - a partir do pensamento italiano de restauro, tendo como base, em especial, os princípios da Carta de Veneza para a análise das características e dos procedimentos utilizados nas intervenções sobre preexistências históricas no Brasil nas últimas décadas. Foram estabelecidas oito tendências de intervenção mais recorrentes em um conjunto de obras analisadas, criando-se grupos com características semelhantes entre si, não totalmente rígidos e fechados, mas que, de alguma forma, pudessem facilitar a leitura das obras e caracterizar o panorama de intervenções no Brasil em relação ao campo disciplinar de restauro. Pretende-se promover a reflexão sobre esse tipo específico de produção ainda recente no Brasil e avaliar como essas intervenções se aproximam, ou não, do campo disciplinar de restauro. Portanto, tomando como referência uma série de obras pré-selecionadas, a intenção deste trabalho é averiguar as posturas, as características e os procedimentos que têm direcionado as intervenções em preexistências históricas no Brasil. O objetivo é analisar as escolhas feitas, verificando quais as tendências e posturas recorrentes e como elas dialogam com os procedimentos atuais sobre o restauro no campo internacional. Procurou-se avaliar a postura e procedimento de projeto a partir da excepcionalidade do monumento como objeto isolado e em seu contexto urbano, a sua função original, a sua destinação de uso, seus aspectos simbólicos e seus detalhes significativos. Dessa forma, foi possível aprofundar o estudo e caracterização de cada uma das tendências de intervenção. Para compreender o cenário brasileiro no que diz respeito à valorização de seu patrimônio e a materialização de quais valores, quais critérios e como os desafios da intervenção e conservação dos monumentos preexistentes são consumados na prática e, principalmente, como a palavra \"restauro\" vem sendo empregada na atualidade, foram analisadas, a partir de uma amostragem reduzida, 32 estudos de caso. / The Thesis \"Old and new in the interventions in historical preexistence : the Brazilian experience (1980-2010)\", has guided us to reflect on the recent dialogue between old and new, permanence and innovation, preservation and change: aspects that are part of the contemporary architectural production scenery, where, at increasingly fast pace, old buildings have become part of a new history of the city. We can observe that what should be exception has become constant practice in current architecture: in an intervention of a monument of artistic and historical value for instance, not always it is the main objective to preserve its role and pass on its essence to the future, not even its aesthetical values and its historical characteristics are always respected, not always is the intervention focused on the monument itself, but rather on the projecting related to it. What should be usual practice has become exception. We find interventions on the preexistence that move away from the methodological rigor of restoring. Known as - restoration, rehabilitation, readjustment, revitalization, recycling - the actions of interventions always operate in relation with time: the life-time of the monument, the time during which it was submitted to degradation, the successive layers of time that were added to it along its transformations and the time left as a living monument. In order to clarify these and other issues on the matter, it is important to investigate the theoretical assumptions and criteria related to the projects adopted in the interventions on the buildings of historical and artistic value - which are, from my point of view, the core of the matter - starting from the Italian art of restoring, bearing in mind the principles of the Venice Charter for a better understanding of the characteristics and the procedures adopted in the interventions of historical preexistence in Brazil in the last decades. Eight trends of mostly recurrent interventions among a group of analyzed works were established: groups with similar characteristics, not totally strict and closed in order to enable the understanding of the works and characterize the range of interventions in Brazil related to restoring. We would like to promote reflection about this specific type of production still recent here in Brazil and to assess how these interventions come close or not to the disciplinary field known as restoring. Therefore, taking as reference a pre-selected group of works, our objective is to ascertain the attitudes, the characteristics and the procedures that lead to the interventions on the historical preexistence in Brazil. Our goal is to analyze the choices that were made, assessing the recurrent trends and attitudes and how they interact with the modern procedures in international restoring. We assessed the attitude and the procedure of the project considering the monument`s exceptionality: its essence of isolated object within the urban context, its original function, its usefulness, its symbolic features and its significant details. Thereby, it has been possible to deepen the study and characterization of each one of the trends in the intervention. For a better understanding of the Brazilian scenery in terms of appreciation of its heritage and materialization of which values, criteria and how the challenges in the intervention and conservation of the preexistent monuments are put in practice and, mainly, how the term \"restoring\" is currently used, we have analyzed 32 study cases.

A tese \"Antigo e novo nas intervenções em preexistências históricas: a experiência brasileira (1980-2010)\", vem pautada na reflexão dos recentes diálogos entre antigo e novo, permanência e inovação, preservação e mudança, que fazem parte do cenário da produção arquitetônica contemporânea em que se assiste, cada vez mais, edifícios antigos tornaremse parte de uma nova história da cidade. Observa-se que o que deveria ser exceção tornou-se prática constante no cenário da arquitetura atual: em um monumento de valor histórico e artístico nem sempre se tem como objetivo, em uma intervenção, preservar o seu protagonismo e transmiti-lo em sua essência para o futuro; nem sempre seus valores estéticos e suas características históricas são respeitados; nem sempre a intervenção tem como foco o monumento, mas sim a projetação do novo associada a ele. E o que deveria ser a prática usual virou exceção. Cada vez mais encontramos intervenções na preexistência que se distanciam do rigor metodológico do restauro. Com variadas denominações - restauro, reabilitação, readequação, revitalização, reciclagem -, as ações de intervenção operam sempre com a dimensão do tempo: o tempo de vida do monumento; o tempo durante o qual ele foi submetido à degradação; as sucessivas camadas de tempo que a ele foram acrescentadas pelas transformações por que passou; e o tempo que lhe resta como monumento vivo. A fim de esclarecer essas e outras questões decorrentes dessa abordagem, busca-se investigar como se articulam as premissas teóricas e os critérios de projeto adotados nas intervenções em edifícios de valor histórico e artístico - onde julgamos encontrar-se o cerne do problema - a partir do pensamento italiano de restauro, tendo como base, em especial, os princípios da Carta de Veneza para a análise das características e dos procedimentos utilizados nas intervenções sobre preexistências históricas no Brasil nas últimas décadas. Foram estabelecidas oito tendências de intervenção mais recorrentes em um conjunto de obras analisadas, criando-se grupos com características semelhantes entre si, não totalmente rígidos e fechados, mas que, de alguma forma, pudessem facilitar a leitura das obras e caracterizar o panorama de intervenções no Brasil em relação ao campo disciplinar de restauro. Pretende-se promover a reflexão sobre esse tipo específico de produção ainda recente no Brasil e avaliar como essas intervenções se aproximam, ou não, do campo disciplinar de restauro. Portanto, tomando como referência uma série de obras pré-selecionadas, a intenção deste trabalho é averiguar as posturas, as características e os procedimentos que têm direcionado as intervenções em preexistências históricas no Brasil. O objetivo é analisar as escolhas feitas, verificando quais as tendências e posturas recorrentes e como elas dialogam com os procedimentos atuais sobre o restauro no campo internacional. Procurou-se avaliar a postura e procedimento de projeto a partir da excepcionalidade do monumento como objeto isolado e em seu contexto urbano, a sua função original, a sua destinação de uso, seus aspectos simbólicos e seus detalhes significativos. Dessa forma, foi possível aprofundar o estudo e caracterização de cada uma das tendências de intervenção. Para compreender o cenário brasileiro no que diz respeito à valorização de seu patrimônio e a materialização de quais valores, quais critérios e como os desafios da intervenção e conservação dos monumentos preexistentes são consumados na prática e, principalmente, como a palavra \"restauro\" vem sendo empregada na atualidade, foram analisadas, a partir de uma amostragem reduzida, 32 estudos de caso. / The Thesis \"Old and new in the interventions in historical preexistence : the Brazilian experience (1980-2010)\", has guided us to reflect on the recent dialogue between old and new, permanence and innovation, preservation and change: aspects that are part of the contemporary architectural production scenery, where, at increasingly fast pace, old buildings have become part of a new history of the city. We can observe that what should be exception has become constant practice in current architecture: in an intervention of a monument of artistic and historical value for instance, not always it is the main objective to preserve its role and pass on its essence to the future, not even its aesthetical values and its historical characteristics are always respected, not always is the intervention focused on the monument itself, but rather on the projecting related to it. What should be usual practice has become exception. We find interventions on the preexistence that move away from the methodological rigor of restoring. Known as - restoration, rehabilitation, readjustment, revitalization, recycling - the actions of interventions always operate in relation with time: the life-time of the monument, the time during which it was submitted to degradation, the successive layers of time that were added to it along its transformations and the time left as a living monument. In order to clarify these and other issues on the matter, it is important to investigate the theoretical assumptions and criteria related to the projects adopted in the interventions on the buildings of historical and artistic value - which are, from my point of view, the core of the matter - starting from the Italian art of restoring, bearing in mind the principles of the Venice Charter for a better understanding of the characteristics and the procedures adopted in the interventions of historical preexistence in Brazil in the last decades. Eight trends of mostly recurrent interventions among a group of analyzed works were established: groups with similar characteristics, not totally strict and closed in order to enable the understanding of the works and characterize the range of interventions in Brazil related to restoring. We would like to promote reflection about this specific type of production still recent here in Brazil and to assess how these interventions come close or not to the disciplinary field known as restoring. Therefore, taking as reference a pre-selected group of works, our objective is to ascertain the attitudes, the characteristics and the procedures that lead to the interventions on the historical preexistence in Brazil. Our goal is to analyze the choices that were made, assessing the recurrent trends and attitudes and how they interact with the modern procedures in international restoring. We assessed the attitude and the procedure of the project considering the monument`s exceptionality: its essence of isolated object within the urban context, its original function, its usefulness, its symbolic features and its significant details. Thereby, it has been possible to deepen the study and characterization of each one of the trends in the intervention. For a better understanding of the Brazilian scenery in terms of appreciation of its heritage and materialization of which values, criteria and how the challenges in the intervention and conservation of the preexistent monuments are put in practice and, mainly, how the term \"restoring\" is currently used, we have analyzed 32 study cases.