The document summarizes the ELMCIP project, a 3-year collaborative research project running from 2010-2013 involving seven European research partners and one non-academic partner. The project investigated how creative communities form in a globalized, digital environment. It developed an Electronic Literature Knowledge Base documenting over 1,700 creative works, 1,992 articles of critical writing, and 1,730 referenced authors to map the field of electronic literature.

2. 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
Project Leader: Scott Rettberg, University of Bergen

3. ELMCIP
CONSORTIUM
PARTNERS
PROJECT PARTNERS

4. The ELMCIP Electronic
Literature Knowledge Base

6. 1729
Crea*ve
Works
documented

7. 1992
ar*cles
of
Cri*cal
Wri*ng
documented

8. 1730
authors
referenced

9. Publishers,
journals,
and
organiza*ons
mapped

10. Key
conferences,
exhibi*ons,
seminars
archived

11. …even
as
they
unfold

12. Teaching
resources
made
available
on
an
open
access
basis

13. Video
and
mul*media
documenta*on
of
works
and
events
made
accessible

14. Extensive
cross-­‐referencing
to
show
works
in
their
cri*cal
contexts

15. Archival
aMachments
such
as
full
text
pdfs
and
source
code

16. Capturing
the
emergent
vocabulary
of
a
field

18. Tag cloud from ELO conference papers

19. Other tags appearing on works tagged hypertext

20. Other tags appearing on works tagged Flash

21. Other tags on critical writing tagged embodiment

22. Authorship of creative works documented in the KB

23. Authorship of works documented in the KB

25. Critical Writing references to Creative Works in the KB

27. All creative works in the KB, with authors and tags

30. All creative and critical works presented at events in the KB

31. 2002 ELO State of the Arts Exhibition

32. 2008 ELO Media Arts show

33. ELO 2010 Critical Writing

34. ELO 2010 Creative Works

35. ELO Facebook Group Activity

36. Books also bought by people who
bought books about electronic
literature (amazon.com)

37. hMp://elmcip.net/knowledgebase
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