After spending the month of May identifying works as Flash and Shockwave works from the 12 collections from the ELO Repository that relate to journals, anthologies, and showcases for the grant, ELL Team Members Holly Slocum and Kathleen Zoller painstakingly revisited them last week to fine tune the dates and software versions. They then reviewed the information and re-categorized them, if needed, by the level of difficulty of preserving them with the WebRecorder. Here is final count of the works we will be including in the grant:
There are 445 works of Flash and Shockwave e-lit and other interactive media forms in need of preservation in the ELO Repository. They are broken down into these categories:
1. The number of works in each of the 12 collections:
- Beehive – 11 works
- Cauldron & Net – 11 works
- WordCircuits – 5 works
- frAme – 5 works
- Riding the Meridian – 8 works
- Poems That Go – 40 works
- The Iowa Review Web (TIRW) – 24 works
- Electronic Literature Collection (ELC) 1 – 25 works
- Electronic Literature Collection (ELC) 2 – 27 works
- Electronic Literature Collection (ELC) 3 – 14 works
- Turbulence.org – 181 works
- The Museum of the Essential & Beyond That (MEBT) – 93 works
2. The number of Flash & Shockwave files in each of the 12 collections:
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- Beehive – Shockwave: 1; Flash: 10
- Cauldron & Net – Shockwave: 1; Flash: 10
- WordCircuits – Shockwave: 0; Flash: 5
- frAme – Shockwave: 0; Flash: 5
- Riding the Meridian – Shockwave: 1; Flash: 7
- Poems That Go – Shockwave: 4; Flash: 36
- TIRW – Shockwave: 2; Flash: 22
- ELC 1 – Shockwave: 6; Flash: 19
- ELC 2 – Shockwave: 4; Flash: 23
- ELC 3 – Shockwave: 0; Flash: 14
- Turbulence.org – Shockwave: 26; Flash; 155
- MEBT – Shockwave: 4; Flash: 89
3. The overall number of Flash works: 364
4. The overall number Shockwave works: 49
5. The number of works for which we have the local files: 335
6. The number of works that are accessed as external files: 109
7. The overall number of works classified as Levels 1, 2, and 3:
- Level 1 – 139
- Level 2 – 90
- Level 3 – 215
8. The number of works classified as Levels 1, 2, and 3 for each of the 12 collections:
- Beehive – Level 1: 5; Level 2: 4; Level 3: 2
- Cauldron & Net – Level 1: 5; Level 2: 3; Level 3: 3
- WordCircuits – Level 1: 4; Level 2: 1; Level 3: 0
- frAme – Level 1: 1; Level 2: 0; Level 3: 4
- Riding the Meridian – Level 1: 1; Level 2: 1; Level 3: 6
- Poems That Go – Level 1: 17; Level 2: 12; Level 3: 11
- TIRW – Level 1: 10; Level 2: 7; Level 3: 7
- ELC 1 – Level 1: 9; Level 2: 4; Level 3: 12
- ELC 2 – Level 1: 6; Level 2: 8; Level 3: 13
- ELC 3 – Level 1: 2; Level 2: 3; Level 3: 9
- Turbulence.org – Level 1: 24; Level 2: 28; Level 3: 129
- MEBT – Level 1: 55; Level 2: 19; Level 3: 19
Fortunately, these findings do not change the timeline. It remains:
Year 1
Journals––Poems That Go, TIRW, Word Circuits, Beehive, Cauldron and Net, frAme, and Riding the Meridian––and the three anthologies––Electronic Literature Collections 1, 2, and 3; 190 total works
- June 1-June 30, 2020: Beehive (11 works––Level 1: 5, Level 2: 4; Level 3: 2)
- July 1-July 31, 2020: Cauldron & Net (11 works––Level 1: 5, Level 2: 3; Level 3: 3); Word Circuits (5 works––Level 1: 4, Level 2: 1; Level 3: 0)
- August 1-August 30, 2020: frAme (5 works––Level 1: 1, Level 2: 0; Level 3: 4); Riding the Meridian (8 works––Level 1: 1, Level 2: 1; Level 3: 6)
- September 1-October 31, 2020: Poems That Go (40 works––Level 1: 17, Level 2: 12; Level 3: 11)
- November 1-February 28, 2021: The Iowa Review Web (24 works––Level 1: 10, Level 2: 7; Level 3: 7)
- March 1-March 30, 2021: Electronic Literature Collection 1 (25 works––Level 1: 9, Level 2: 4; Level 3: 12)
- April 1-April 30, 2021: Electronic Literature Collection 2 (27 works––Level 1: 6, Level 2: 8; Level 3: 13)
- May 1-May 31, 2021: Electronic Literature Collection 3 (14 works––Level 1: 2, Level 2: 3; Level 3: 9)
Year 2
June 2021-June 2022: Showcase 1–– Turbulence.org (181 works––Level 1: 24, Level 2: 28; Level 3: 129)
- June 1-September 30, 2021: Level 1 (24 works)
- October 1-January 15, 2022: Level 2 (28 works)
- January 16-May 31, 2022: Level 3 (129 works)
Year 3
June 2022-May 31, 2023: Showcase 2–– Museum of the Essential and Beyond That (93 works); documentary video and white paper
- June 1-August 30, 2022: Level 1 (55 works)
- September 1-October 31, 2022: Level 2 (19 works)
- November 1-January 15, 2023: Level 3 (19 works)
- January 15-May 31, 2023: documentary video and white paper
Comments about the Works Involving Shockwave
Assistance from Rhizome involves only 49 Shockwave works, down from the original estimate of 71. This is actually better for us since these works will require much attention in order to preserve them. Below are the publications with the number of works from this category:
- Beehive: 1
- Cauldron & Net: 1
- ELC 1: 6
- ELC 2: 4
- ELC 3: 0
- frAme: 0
- MEBT: 4
- Poems That Go: 4
- Riding the Meridian: 1
- TIRW: 2
- Turbulence.org: 26
Credits
I want to thank WSUV’s Christine Portfors, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Graduate Education, for the seed money that funded the ELL Team to undertake this very necessary preliminary work during the month of May. Thank you also goes to Holly Slocum, ELL’s Project Manager, and Kathleen Zoller for their excellent detailed work last week. Thank you to the other ELL Team members who during May helped to develop the original list from the 3000+ works in the ELO Repository: Mariah Gwin, Andrew Nevue, and Moneca Roath. And as always, I thank Nicholas Schiller, the Associate Director of ELL, for helping me oversee this very important project.