challenges

This panel constitutes part two of the report begun at ELO 2018 on the progress of the project. It includes a tour of the ELO Repository and its various assets. It is followed by a discussion of the challenges the team faced in creating the site and ways they resolved them. It then moves into the next step of the project––the ELO Wikibase––that will ensure the accuracy and provide provenance for the works. It ends with a presentation of the kind of research opportunities the site makes available to scholars.

Dene Grigar begins by detailing the challenges that current archival practices pose for preserving electronic literature. Examples from various library collections and experiences with preparing works for archives in her own lab help to foreground the problems needed to be solved.

Abby Adams discusses the challenges from the perspective of an archive, providing insights into the specific role of an institution’s archive in regards to making works accessible to the public.

Five minute lightning talks addressing the question: What comes after electronic literature?

Steven Wingate: eLit and the Borg: the challenges of mainstreaming and commercialization
Leonardo Flores: Time Capsules for True Digital Natives
Maya Zalbidea, Xiana Sotelo and Augustine Abila: The Feminist Ends of Electronic Literature
Mark Sample: Bad Data for a Broken World
José Molina: Translating E-poetry: Still Avant-Garde
Daria Petrova and Natalia Fedorova: 101 mediapoetry lab
Judd Morrissey: Turesias (Odds of Ends)
Jose Aburto: Post Digital Interactive Poetry: The End of Electronic Interfaces
Andrew Klobucar: Measure for Measure: Moving from Narratives to Timelines in Social Media Networking
David Clark: The End of Endings
Damon Baker: "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!": New Developments in the CaveWriting Hypertext Editing System

(source: ELO 2015 conference catalog)