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1. Interview with Michael Joyce

   Archivist Gabriela Redwine interviewed author Michael Joyce during his visit to the Ransom Center in April 2009. Excerpts from the interview are available as audio files and transcripts. Joyce talks about the reader community around early hypertexts, before they were even published and were just being passed from person to person on floppy disks, about connections between his work and Modernist authors (Stein, Joyce), about lowercase letters not being an obvious requirement to early computer programmers, about e-lit authors having to be their own critics and about the sensation of writing the first line of afternoon and knowing that this was different from conventional literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.02.2011 - 11:43

2. A Companion to Digital Humanities

   This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. 

   • Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. 
   • Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. 
   • Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. 
   • Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.

     (Source: publisher's website) 

    

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.03.2011 - 10:45

3. Letters That Matter: Electronic Literature Collection Vol 1

   John Zuern considers the significance of the first volume of ELO's Electronic Literature Collection for the future of electronic arts.

   (Source: ebr)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 22:30

4. Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature

   Electronic literature doesn't come on bound, offset-printed pages. Keeping it on a shelf doesn't mean that it will be easy, or even possible, to read it in the future. Even putting it into a vault with controlled temperature, light, and humidity won't ensure its availability. The new possibilities of electronic literature come from its being as much software as document, as much machine as text. For electronic literature to be readable, its mechanisms must continue to operate or must be replaced, since changes in the context of computing will complicate access to important works of literature on the computer. The context of computing includes operating systems, applications, the network environment, and interface hardware — and this context is constantly evolving. A piece of electronic literature written for a Macintosh in the 1980s may be unreadable on the Macs in a college computer lab today. But e-lit can become unreadable much more quickly, as an upgrade to the next version of the authoring or reading software introduces unexpected problems. Some approaches to creating e-lit are more likely than others to result in work that is preservable.

   Scott Rettberg - 09.04.2011 - 16:03

5. Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature

   The intended audience of Born-Again Bits includes besides e-lit authors also the publishers, archivists, academics, programmers, and funding officers who will be necessary partners in an overall, renewable ecology of electronic literature. These other communities are already at work on digital preservation strategies. However, experimental e-lit has special qualities that make it an extreme case of the digital artifact. It is hoped that ELO's PAD initiative will contribute to other digital preservation strategies by ensuring that they accommodate e-lit and so, in the process, become more robust for all digital works.

   Scott Rettberg - 06.02.2012 - 15:04

6. Digital Magic: Preservation for a New Era

   Kirschenbaum makes an "argument for the importance of digital preservation while describing how how he accessed SWALLOWS via an Apple // emulator and then provided Zelevanksy with the original .dsk file from which he then created a new version of SWALLOWS (with audio and video clips mixed in) called G R E A T . B L A N K N E S S" (Source: adapted from post at loriemerson.net).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.04.2012 - 08:55

7. 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

8. 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

9. Cibertextualidades 5

   The impact of hypertext and hypermedia on scholarly editing of our literary legacy, which is increasingly published in electronic formats, has fostered a conceptual shift from the archive as a classified hierarchical collection of texts to the archive as a decentred and reconfigurable network of texts. Another important set of questions concerns new methods for editing and organizing multimodal textualities resulting from combinations of materials and media (graphic, audio, video, digital). The convergent multimodality of digital textuality opens up a new editing and archival space for multimedia and intermedia forms of writing. In the current technological context, innovative and experimental literary forms become relevant, as many of the operations that the machine provides can be found in previous literary practices: from collages and automatic writing to narrative permutations and intermedia poetry. This issue of the journal addresses problems of representing, archiving, and publishing experimental literary forms in digital spaces.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 02.07.2013 - 16:56

10. 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

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