CELL Consortium on Electronic Literature

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SPXI instrument · method 0.9 of 87, level 0 (Measurement): Capture Registry (longitudinal observation). An instrument of SPXI, the Semantic Packet for eXchange & Indexing; the whole practice is itemized at spxi.dev/methods.

Capture Registry › capture cell-consortium-on-electronic-literature-aio-20261101

One record of the canonical Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), cited at https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/cell-consortium-on-electronic-literature-aio-20261101/. the canonical Capture Registry (version 12.518) · the address page · this card in the gallery · this record as data · table of contents.

AXN:0BAB.CAPTURE — this address. Each observation below is one AXN, sealed with its analysis and measures; the identifier names the reading together with the response it reads.
AXN:0BAB.CAPTURE.🔭🕊️🧭◇🌈🔽 — Google AI Overview, 2026-11-01 · sealed observation (SHA-256 387e509a1ed56906…)

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Machine Reception2026-11-01

CELL Consortium on Electronic Literature

Originator: CELL Project: Consortium on Electronic Literature · outside the archive (out-universe) · site · SPXI treatment: partial

BROAD MATCH

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THE CONSORTIUM, SIGNED OUT, 2026-11-01: 'The Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) is an international, open-access collaboration that provides centralized access to digital literary databases, archives, and institutional repositories.' Pointers to 'The Index | CELL' and 'About CELL'; key facts and history (mission; 'Founded in 2009 by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)'; 'Hosted at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen in Norway'; 'the CELL Element Set metadata standard (2012–2013)' and The Index on 'curated Wikibase and Wikidata infrastructure'; the seven federated member archives by full name); an offer on submitting a database archive or exploring cataloged works. Two cards, both cellproject.net (The Index, About CELL).

Full record — 4,540 characters, 2 sources

Capture record

captured: 2026-11-01
surface: Google AI Overview
auth state: signed out, incognito
evidence class: paste
PER (dimensional, rubric v1.1): PER 0.00 · M 0.00 · C 0.00 · D 0.00
PER (historical scalar): 0.5
PER units retained: inst, src
citations read: 2
observation id: OBS-15f1919dddb3
address id: ADDR-9aa64c881c4c

Reading

The innocent reading first. Asked for the consortium by its acronym and name, the Overview says what it is, when and by whom it began, where it is hosted, what standard and index it built and which archives belong to it, from the consortium's own two pages.

Findings

THE CONSORTIUM AT ITS GRAIN. The first sentence is the home page's own, with one word added: 'Initiated in 2009, the Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) is an international, open-access collaboration providing centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional repositories.' The composition's 'digital literary databases' adds 'digital'. The member list agrees with 'Federated Member Archives ELMCIP NT2 PO.EX ELD ADEL Ciberia DLD', expanded to full names ('ELMCIP Knowledge Base', 'Répertoire NT2', 'Digital Archive of PO.EX', 'Archiv der deutschsprachigen elektronischen Literatur (ADEL)') that the saved home page does not spell out. The census row's own reading holds ELMCIP 'frozen since October 2026'; the composition lists it among the members with no note of its state.
A FOUNDER AND A HOST FROM THE ABOUT PAGE. 'Founded in 2009 by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)' and 'Hosted at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen in Norway, in partnership with ELO and federated member archives', both cited to the About card ('About CELL | Consortium on Electronic Literature'). The census saved only the home page, which says 'Initiated in 2009' with no initiator, and its operator field records the consortium of member archives alone. Two pages saved for other census rows bear on the tie: the ELO's Wikipedia article lists among its officers 'Managing Director of CELL Davin Heckman', and electronic book review's About page lists 'Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen' and 'Consortium for Electronic Literature (CELL)' as separate entries under 'Support and Affiliations'. Neither states a founder or a host for CELL. The CELL Element Set and its years are on no saved page.
THE LINKED DATA, IN PART. 'launched its cross-database search engine ("The Index") using curated Wikibase and Wikidata infrastructure' agrees with the footer, 'Metadata licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Linked with Wikidata', and the index heading, 'The Index of Electronic Literature Discover creative works across electronic literature archives Search Works'. The licence, the 'SPARQL Query Endpoint' and 'The CELL Open-Access Manifesto' are not carried. The census row reads this layer as the machine-legible form in which a work can be found under its author.
THE WORKS AND THEIR AUTHORS NOT CARRIED. The home page lists recently cataloged works each under its archive and author: 'The File room Ciberia Antoni Muntadas 1994', 'Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard ELD Stéphane Mallarmé', 'This House Has People in It ELD Alan Resnick, Dina Kelberman, Robby Rackleff 2016'. The composition names no work and no person; its closing offers to 'explore specific examples of electronic literature cataloged in the index'. The census row's name field rests on this listing, and its reading notes that the indexed records 'still need work-level relevance judgments'.

Analysis analyst prose, not machine text

An accurate composition of the consortium and its members, with a founder, a host and a metadata standard taken from an About page the census did not save. The works the Index lists under their authors, the census row's ground for reading CELL as an attributed discovery layer, are absent.

Machine text, verbatim

CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the Overview expanded, with its source cards · complete as supplied · READ IN FULL 2026-11-01

[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14). The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view).] The 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted. [QUERENT] CELL Consortium on Electronic Literature [SYSTEM] The Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) is an international, open-access collaboration that provides centralized access to digital literary databases, archives, and institutional repositories. [[1], [2]] You can explore the project and its federated archive search engine directly through [The Index | CELL](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUAHrOzAVF7uSe5B_alMA-2Go6QMUnD9HCyULKTVhulpWHKCc_NqPQZ-nJwqJFpLMpHeKlCWC7XkywVozVKd7_8FZMbrNIEd39ljINNYpWYDw) or read more about its background on [About CELL | Consortium on Electronic Literature](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVQHrOzAV_XQRGvYPUHJb7vGqhRjmDva_yXkJuGfZ4V6Biu8FBpnZt4JZC1Im_rHVjVnZXYJ7xyxZsKqAYG1LVHShN2Hkibayq7jCfJaWjSqjpQMMvKI). Key Facts & History * Mission: Preserves born-digital creative works, hypertexts, kinetic poetry, and interactive media. [1] * Initiation: Founded in 2009 by the [Electronic Literature Organization](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAV4NiqYRcTWMB4GqAFLLpBonHEej_7JFt1IDn406HActTsQ_jL2WgSHcYuqqIEvzD2bd3ymTr3mJrJ8J4unsAobO-iPRbj02db0ri0_9_w0etVpGYV3NyH) (ELO). [[1], [2]] * Stewardship & Governance: Hosted at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen in Norway, in partnership with ELO and federated member archives. [1] * Standards & Tools: Developed the CELL Element Set metadata standard (2012–2013) and launched its cross-database search engine ("The Index") using curated Wikibase and Wikidata infrastructure. [1] * Federated Member Archives: Includes projects such as the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, Répertoire NT2, Digital Archive of PO.EX, Electronic Literature Directory (ELD), Archiv der deutschsprachigen elektronischen Literatur (ADEL), Ciberia Project, and Databank Digitale Literatuur (DLD). [1] Would you like to know more about how to submit a database archive to CELL or explore specific examples of electronic literature cataloged in the index? cellproject.net The Index | CELL

Sources (2) as cited, and as the copy produced them

cellproject.net third_party
The Index | CELL
Federated Member Archives: ELMCIP Knowledge Base (ELMCIP), Répertoire NT2 (NT2), Digital Archive of PO.EX (PO.EX), Electronic Literature Directory (ELD), Archiv...
as pastedcellproject.net
cellproject.net third_party
About CELL | Consortium on Electronic Literature
Overview: International, open-access collaboration providing centralized access to electronic literature databases via The Index in a curated Wikibase and Wikid...
the source the composition cites for the ELO as founder and the Center for Digital Narrative as host; not saved by the census
as pastedAbout CELL | Consortium on Electronic Literature Overview: International, open-access collaboration providing centralized access to electronic literature databases via The Index in a curated Wikibase and Wikid... AI responses may include mistakes. [Learn more](https://support.google.com/websearch?p=ai_overviews)
unattributed segment no cited source matches this text
Federated Member Archives: ELMCIP Knowledge Base (ELMCIP), Répertoire NT2 (NT2), Digital Archive of PO.EX (PO.EX), Electronic Literature Directory (ELD), Archiv...

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