The ELMCIP Electronic Literature Base

ELMCIP is a 3-year collaborative research project running from 2010-2013 and a part of the HERA JRP: 'Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation'

ELMCIP involves 7 European research partners and 1 non-academic partner who will investigate:

How creative communities of practitioners form within a transnational and transcultural context in a globalized and distributed communication environment

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ELMCIPCONSORTIUM

PARTNERS

PROJECT PARTNERS

¤ Understand how creative communities form and interact through distributed media

¤ Document and evaluate various models and forces of creative commuities in the field of electronic literature

¤ Examine how electronic literature communities benefit from current educational models and develop pedagogical tools

¤ Study how electronic literature manifests in conventional cultural contexts and evaluate the effects of distributing and exhibiting e-lit in such contexts.

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS & OBJECTIVES

¤ Series of case studies and research papers (for publications and conferences)¤ Series of public seminars¤ Online knowledge base (materials from seminars, project information and an extensive bibliographic record of e-lit works)¤ Pedagogy workshop and anthology

(Resulting in extensive documentation, presented as

an accessible website and DVD-ROM)¤ International conference ¤ Public exhibition of electronic literature artworks

and performances¤ Openly distributed publications (conference proceedings, exhibition catalog, project

documentation and a DVD anthology of e-lit works)

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OUTCOMES

Creative works in KB by year published

Works tagged “hypertext by year

Words in titles of creative works

Manyeyes (http://www-958.ibm.com)

Tags used as a wordcloud

Plans for the future

EU FP7 ICT and Cultural Heritage

“Promoting Cultural Resources through Extensible

Databases” (PRO-CRED)

HERA Cultural Encounters“Exhibit the Database” (ETD)

Grant applications:

PRO-CRED work packages

http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase