My NMR co-conspirator, Nick Montfort, and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new pamphlet we’ve written: Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature. AFB is the first publication of the Electronic Literature Organization’s Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) project. While we wrote most of the text of the pamphlet, Nick and I are very much building on the work of the last couple of years by the participants in PAD.

Acid-Free Bits is aimed at authors of electronic literary works. As its subtitle indicates, it identifies a set of practical steps that authors can take now to make it more likely that their work can be made available to readers in the future, even as the technological environment continues to shift under our feet. The web version is available at the link above, and the ELO is also printing up a paper version — which will be made available for the first time at this summer’s Incubation (the 3rd trAce International Symposium on Writing and the Internet).