In autumn 2006 the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) released the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D, and Narrative Animations.

One of the main common characteristics of Web-based literary products is that they often can be read (or viewed, listened, played with, used) in multifaceted ways. Accordingly the curation of Electronic Literature is challenged by ambiguity and heterogeneity on different levels.

In issue #004 of [Re: magAzine] by CONT3XT.NET, Scott Rettberg -- co-curator of the anthology and co-founder of the ELO -- talks about different ways of contextualizing, re-presenting and archiving E-Literature: "The more context, the more documentation available to the reader, the better."

__ to the interview: http://re.cont3xt.net/pdf/Re_004.pdf
__ to former interviews: http://re.cont3xt.net/archive.html