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I won't be at PAXU, but I'm a librarian whose MLS capstone focused on archiving born-digital materials (specifically the Internet Archive), and I've tried a few methods of organization for my digital and physical TTRPG collection. Passing this along to some @alagamert.bsky.social folks as well.

Alas, this year Origins and Gen Con were the only two conventions I could swing - PAXU nearly happened but my con buddy couldn't make it and I was getting tight on vacation at the library where I work.

Another couple folks that might be worth connecting with are Dr. Donaldson and Dr. Walsh at IU Bloomington - I worked with both during my time in the Masters of Library Science program there. devanraydonaldson.com jawalsh.github.io

i wanna hang with the metadata nerds stupid border

Metadata con in Canada when?

Library systems guy, very into metadata, and definitely looking at ways of collecting/organizing/preserving TTRPG materials ... but no way I can make it to PAXU. I am very interested in what people are doing on this front, though.

This ALSO includes folks who do Fan Information Labor like @critrolestats.bsky.social @omenarchive.com and the like. Folks have been talking about real preservation, real improvements to discoverability. This isn’t the only or best place to gather but it’s the next one.

Passing this along to someone associated with Friends at the Table archival/fan labor (which has a wiki, transcripts, and a transcripts search).

(Also, if I recall correctly, Austin Walker pays for the transcripts?)

He does — or rather FatT now does, he initially covered the cost.