Publishing and Infrastructure Group (PAIG)
PAIG is a workgroup within the center that is taking on a number of projects related to publishing and research infrastructure, particularly of electronic literature. The group is led by post-doctoral fellow Hannah Ackermans.
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The following is a list of the projects within the PAIG group:
Off Center – Podcast
Biweekly podcast series that shares research from CDN with an international audience. In each episode, host Scott Rettberg and a guest delve into a topic revolving around digital storytelling and its effect on contemporary culture. Original CDN project, started in 2023.
Electronic Book Review
“ebr is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network”. The journal was founded in 1995, with CDN node leader Joseph Tabbi as one if its founding members. From 2024 it will be hosted at the University of Bergen.
ELMCIP Knowledge Base
The researchers of CDN have historically played an important international leadership role in electronic literature (e-lit), in part through our development of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base, a leading open-access research database. It is a contributory, public database that documented the field of electronic literature with cross-referenced records, resulting from the research project Electronic Literature as a Model for Creativity and Innovation in Practice (2011-2013).
As the knowledge base gets archived summer 2024, we are making significant changes to this resource, including editing and refinining its contents, opening it up as wikidata, and eventually evolving it into a new research platform focused on digital narrative – DNKB.
CELL – Consortium on Electronic Literature
The Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) will give access to an expansive collection of records across electronic literature databases through one Wikibase. This is a pre-existing project from Electronic Literature Organization, founded in 2009/2010, expanding to several e-lit databases in several languages.
DNKB – Digital Narrative Knowledge Base
A CDN original project which will launch fall 2024. The Digital Narrative Knowledge Base (DNKB) can include any Wikidata related to digital narrative included within the nodes. The Comprehensive Research Environment (CRE-CDN, working title), which uses DNKB, allows CDN affiliates to document their datasets, creative works critical writings and events.
This provides both an overview of the work related to the CDN and a tool for research. With this tool, we can combine the crowd-sourcing from Wikidata, but retain the qualities of a peer-reviewed database.
Living Glossary of Digital Narrative
The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative is a participatory, on-going, peer-reviewed glossary containing foundational and topical terminology regarding digital narrative (sub)fields, explained for an interdisciplinary audience. CDN original project in collaboration with Stuttgart University, will launch summer 2024.
