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

ELMCIP involves seven European research partners and one non-academic partner investigating:

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

ELMCIPCONSORTIUM

PARTNERS

PROJECT PARTNERS

In the USA, the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) functions as a hub for practictioners and theoreticians of electronic literature.

While Europe had hosted key creative, theoretical and scholarly practitioners, events and communities of electronic literature – it lacked a shared research infrastructure.

ELMCIP sought to gather the multitude of practices and theories in electronic literature, existing in a multi-linguistic and multicultural Europe, in order to create a shared archive and research network.

IMPACT & IMPORT

Series of case studies and research papers(for publications and conference presentations)

Series of public seminars and workshops International conference Public exhibition of electronic literature artworks and

performances Open access publications

(conference proceedings, exhibition catalog, report, and special

issues of journals) Electronic Literature Knowledge Base

(materials from seminars, project information, and an extensive

cross-referenced bibliographic research platform)

Anthology of European Electronic Literature (Published on USB and an accessible website, including

pedagogical materials)

OUTCOMES

Significant Events to Develop a Network

Electronic Literature in Europe, University of BergenNovember 2008

Electronic Literature Communities SeminarUniversity of Bergen, September 2010

Electronic Literature Publishing Seminar,University of Jyväskylä, March 2011

Workshop on Electronic Literature Pedagogy, Blekinge Institute of Technology, June 2011

International Workshop on Databases and Bibliographic Standards for Electronic LiteratureUniversity of Bergen, June 2011

E-Literature and New Media Art SeminarLjubljana, Slovenia, September 2011

Digital Poetics and the PresentAmsterdam, December 2011

Digital Textuality with/in PerformanceBristol, May 2012

Remediating the Social book including full papers and artist

pages from the exhibition

ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature

Including 18 works from artists from 10 different countries, in

10 languages

Also including video lectures and pedagogical materials

The ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base

1729 Creative Works documented

1992 articles of Critical Writing documented

1730 authors referenced

Publishers, journals, and organizations mapped

Key conferences, exhibitions, seminars archived

…even as they unfold

Teaching resources made available on an open access

basis

Video and multimedia documentation of works and

events made accessible

Extensive cross-referencing to show works in their critical

contexts

Archival attachments such as full text pdfs and source code

The CELL Consortium, Interoperability, and Sharing

DIVERSE Nodes, Actors, and Activities that Define a Field

A FEW “NUGGETS”: LESSONS LEARNED

BEFORE

• Established a network before applying• Team with diverse skill sets, disciplinary backgrounds, methodologies• Established branding / logotype etc. for consistent approach• Shared leadership approach and collaborative project planning• IPs that cohered but modular with few dependencies

DURING: Challenges ALONG THE WAY

• Initial staffing takes time• Different challenges with PhDs, post-docs• Need to negotiate different academic cultures and university bureaucracies• English(es)• Different budget and reporting structures for different countries• Currency exchange rate issue during time of crisis

DURING: Opportunities and surprises

• Involve more researchers than PIs, funded postdocs etc.• Events / conferences and publications to amplify and extend• Think seriously of knowledge transfer and public(s)• Follow your research – minor parts of your project might become more central, new avenues of research will open up• Think beyond your core disciplines to extend your work• Think local, national, European, and globally

AFTER: Sustainability Concerns and Future Plans

• All good projects research projects have a long tail• Digital humanities projects have particular sustainability concerns – databases are not fixed artifacts but knowledge life forms• Work with your department, university, and national funding agencies to assure that the resources you develop can continue

their trajectory, that research can continue• Empower the network and use the momentum• Celebrate the acheivements• Project leaders: afterwards, take a break

Distant Reading and Visualization

Tag cloud from ELO conference papers

Other tags appearing on works tagged hypertext

Other tags appearing on works tagged Flash

Other tags on critical writing tagged embodiment

Authorship of creative works documented in the KB

Authorship of works documented in the KB

Critical Writing references to Creative Works in the KB

http://retts.net/viz/elmcip_ref_crit_work

All creative works in the KB, with authors and tags

All works in KB with tags (sized by degree) and year of publication

All creative and critical works presented at events in the KB

2002 ELO State of the Arts Exhibition

2008 ELO Media Arts show

ELO 2010 Critical Writing

ELO 2010 Creative Works

ELO Facebook Group Activity

http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase

Use, research, contribute, participate!