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1. Porting E-Poetry: The Case of First Screening

   This presentation seeks to examine issues around the practice of porting electronic literature,
   particularly E-poetry by examining the case of First Screening by bpNichol, a Canadian poet who
   programmed a suite of e-poems in Apple BASIC in 1984. This work was preserved, documented, ported, curated, and published in Vispo.com in 2007 by a collaborative group of poets and programmers: Jim Andrews, Geof Huth, Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, and Dan Waber. This publication consists of a curated collection of four different versions of First Screening which I will analyze in my presentation:

   1. The original DSK file of the 1984 edition, which can be opened with an Apple IIe emulator, along with the Apple BASIC source code as a text file, and scanned images of the printed matter
   published with the 51/4 inch floppy disks it was distributed in.

   2. A video captured documentation of the emulated version in Quicktime format.

   3. The 1993 HyperCard version, ported by J. B. Hohm, along with the printed matter of that
   published edition.

   4. A JavaScript version of First Screening ported by Marko Niemi and Jim Andrews.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.06.2012 - 12:27

2. An Archival Approach to Curating Born-Digital and Electronic Literary Materials

   This panel session will explore the curation of electronic or born-digital materials in literary manuscript collections. Speakers will discuss how they applied (or tried to apply) traditional archival theories of appraisal, transfer, processing, preservation, and access to electronic records within their collections. The session will interest writers and artists, scholars, and curators and archivists specializing in electronic media and provide a unique chance for intellectual exchange between these groups.

   (Source: 2008 ELO Conference site)

   Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 12:10

3. Hostages of the Ephemeral: A Preservationist View of Electronic Literature

   Throughout history, stewards of cultural heritage collections have advocated for technologies of external memory based on their proven ability to endure into the future. Despite studies that demonstrate how zeros and ones inscribed on digital media often stand up well to the ravages of time, the long-term preservation of the content they encode—particularly in the field of electronic literature—has proven to be a challenge. This is because the accessibility of electronic literature depends as much on the preservation of bit-streams as on the long-term viability of specialized computing environments and their constituent hardware and software components, thereby placing works of electronic literature at considerably greater risk of disappearance than their analog predecessors. Although authors of electronic literature have cultivated a growing awareness of best practices in digital preservation, they still lack tools designed with the posterity of their creations in mind. This paper explores these issues, as well as the question of ephemerality for electronic literature, by assessing contemporary digital formats within the broader history of preservation technologies.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.08.2013 - 10:33

4. Entity/Identity: A Tool Designed to Index Documents about Digital Poetry

   Entity/Identity: A Tool Designed to Index Documents about Digital Poetry

   Patricia Tomaszek - 10.10.2013 - 21:48

5. Preservation of Digital Literary Works: Another Model of Memory?

   Preservation of Digital Literary Works: Another Model of Memory?

   Patricia Tomaszek - 10.10.2013 - 22:13

6. Electronic Literature as Cultural Heritage (Confessions of an Incunk)

   This is the text of a talk given at the plenary panel at the Electronic Literature Showcase at the Library of Congress, curated by Kathi Inman Berens and Dene Grigar.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 22.10.2013 - 18:12

7. Documenting Events and Works in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base

   This half-day workshop will be focused on the preservation and archiving of Electronic Literature Organization events and conferences. Scott Rettberg has been asked by the ELO board to establish a standing committee of ELO members that will be focused on documenting and archiving current and past ELO events. This workshop will be focused both on the future scope and projects of that committee and on the hands-on documentation of ELO conferences in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. We will consider questions including:

   What are the best practices related to archiving for ELO conference organizers?
   Should relationships be established with one or more libraries or archives to preserve data and ephemera from ELO conferences?
   How should we best go about gathering ELO archives materials and preserving them?
   How can we archive events using the platform of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base?

   Hannah Ackermans - 29.10.2015 - 15:25