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ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
historical lineageField history and indexes of electronic, generative and computational literaturehistorical
The archive's reading. The archive reads ELMCIP as the frozen index of the procedural lineage #186 names: it holds a record of Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge (2009), the survey's own example, under its author's name, with records back to Strachey's M.U.C. Love Letter Generator (1952) and a research collection on bots. It is a discovery resource closed in October 2026; its records point to works that still need relevance judgments, and by themselves show no work addressed to a machine reader.
| Relation to this census | historical lineage |
|---|---|
| Record type | index |
| The question it answers | field history and discovery: does a work, author or critical text of electronic literature have a cross-referenced record in the frozen index? |
| Kind | a research resource for electronic literature, now preserved as a frozen archive |
| Operator | the University of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group, as an outcome of the ELMCIP project; built with a community of international researchers and writers |
| Evidence | knowledge base |
| Unit of record | a cross-referenced record: a creative work, a piece of critical writing, an author, a platform or software, a teaching resource, a publisher or journal, an organization, an event, a database or archive, or a research collection |
| What it records | authors, creative works, critical writing, platforms and practices of electronic literature, from Christopher Strachey's M.U.C. Love Letter Generator (1952) and Theo Lutz's Stochastische Texte (1959) to works of the 2010s |
| In the layer | not recorded: the saved page says nothing of crawling or training |
| Under whose name | a creative work record carries its title, author or authors, year and tags (Taroko Gorge, Nick Montfort, 2009); author records carry name, type and date updated |
| Found and read back | the frozen archive 'remains available for browsing and searching'; tags can be listed by frequency or alphabetically |
| What the apparatus makes from it | not recorded |
| Method | community contribution by international researchers and writers into a Drupal 7 database; closed to new contributions |
| Coverage | geography: international; period: records from 1945 (Vannevar Bush, As We May Think) and 1952 onward; the knowledge base itself June 2010 to October 2026 |
| Count | value: 17,073 published records; as_of: October 2026 (frozen) |
| Holdings | 17,073 published records; 4,011 creative works; 5,060 critical writing records; 4,826 authors; 325 platform/software records; 99 teaching resources; 975 publishers and journals; 722 organizations; 674 events; 78 databases and archives; 69 research collections (Bot-mimicry and Bots! among them) |
| Stated limits | 'is no longer open for new contributions or submissions'; 'certain works referenced herein may be separately licensed' |
| Data access | free browsing and searching of the frozen archive |
| Licence | 'This Work, ELMCIP, is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license , although certain works referenced herein may be separately licensed.' |
| Lifecycle | state: historical; detail: June 2010 to October 2026; preserved as a frozen archive, available for browsing and searching and closed to new contributions; the page states the mission lives on through the Digital Narrative Knowledge Base |
| Version and time | span: June 2010 - October 2026; frozen: October 2026; read: 2026-11-01 |
| Founded | June 2010 |
What its record can settle
- whether a work of electronic literature has a record, with its author, year and tags
- which critical writing, events and platforms are cross-referenced to a work or author
- the knowledge base's own scale at its freeze
What it cannot settle
- anything after October 2026 (frozen)
- whether a work is in a training corpus or a model
- the work itself: records describe works and link to them
Kept apart
- NOT open for new contributions: frozen since October 2026
- NOT the Digital Narrative Knowledge Base, its stated successor
- NOT a repository of the works: it holds records about them
- NOT a training corpus
- NOT a live, accumulating census: a frozen index, closed to new contributions since October 2026
Relations
- used_by: CELL Project: Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL lists ELMCIP first among its federated member archives)
- neighbour: Electronic Literature Collection (the knowledge base holds records for Electronic Literature Collection volumes One (2006), Two (2011) and Three (2016))
Evidence
- self_description (the resource's own statement):
The ELMCIP Knowledge Base is a research resource for electronic literature, now preserved as a frozen archive. It provides cross-referenced, contextualized information about authors, creative works, critical writing, platforms, and practices.
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - span (the resource's own statement):
Electronic Literature Knowledge Base June 2010 – October 2026
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - readback (the resource's own statement):
The archive remains available for browsing and searching, but is no longer open for new contributions or submissions.
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - operator (the resource's own statement):
It was developed in Drupal 7 by the University of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group as an outcome of the ELMCIP project.
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - method (the resource's own statement):
The ELMCIP Knowledge Base was built through the active participation of a community of international researchers and writers working on electronic literature.
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - successor (the resource's own statement):
The mission lives on through the Digital Narrative Knowledge Base .
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - count (the resource's own statement):
17,073 published records preserved.
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - tags (the resource's own statement):
See all tags used in the Knowledge Base by frequency or alphabetically .
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - creative_works (the resource's own statement):
Creative Works 4,011 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - critical_writing (the resource's own statement):
Critical Writing 5,060 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - authors (the resource's own statement):
Authors 4,826 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - platforms (the resource's own statement):
Platform/Software 325 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - teaching (the resource's own statement):
Teaching Resources 99 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - publishers (the resource's own statement):
Publishers and Journals 975 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - organizations (the resource's own statement):
Organizations 722 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - events (the resource's own statement):
Events 674 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - databases (the resource's own statement):
Databases and Archives 78 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - research_collections (the resource's own statement):
Research Collections 69 records
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - bots (the resource's own statement):
Bot-mimicry Bots!
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - taroko (the resource's own statement):
Taroko Gorge Nick Montfort 2009 text generator , poetry generator , HTML , javascript
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - strachey (the resource's own statement):
M.U.C. Love Letter Generator Christopher Strachey 1952
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - lutz (the resource's own statement):
Stochastische Texte Theo Lutz 1959
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - bush (the resource's own statement):
As We May Think Vannevar Bush 1945
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - author_record (the resource's own statement):
Nick Montfort Person 16/10/2020
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - elc_records (the resource's own statement):
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One 2006
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - adel (the resource's own statement):
ADEL (Archive of German Electronic Literature) 23/11/2018
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee… - license (the resource's own statement):
This Work, ELMCIP, is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license , although certain works referenced herein may be separately licensed.
https://elmcip.net/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 5e814dc0d00822ee…
Unchecked
elmcip--home (elmcip.net/knowledgebase): saved text is a redirect notice of 87 characters, unread and unquoted; elmcip--about (elmcip.net/about): http 404, unread; individual records, the search, and the Digital Narrative Knowledge Base
Cite: Lee Sharks, ed. "ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base." The training layer: a meta-aggregator, traininglayerliterature.org, compiled 2026-11-01. https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/elmcip