blog: Preserving Virtual Worlds project - Second Life

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) have received funding for a two-year project to explore methods for preserving digital games, interactive fiction, and shared realtime virtual spaces.
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000932.html