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trAce Archive FAQ
The search results are ordered by relevance to the search terms as designated by the Microsft Index Server Search Engine. The summary record returned first contains the following fields: You can then look at the full record (Click on More Information) or click on the title for the work itself. The XML Scheme used for cataloguing the items in the archive can be downloaded here Using the basic search for an author or artist name should give good results, however, as names of every author, editor, contributor and collaborator have been input exactly as they were in the original web pages, the spellings etc. from the original works, may, especially for raw contributive projects, not have been definitive. If you can’t find your own name consider whether you submitted under some diminutive, alternative, online name, pen-name or maybe even with an accidental typo. Search on the title of the project and see if you can find your name in the list of contributors. In the archive author/artist has been broken down into Writer/artist names have been input exactly as they appeared in the original website. This can be found at How to Search While we have tried to be consistent in our indexing, the nomenclature used to describe this type of writing/art and its associated process and tools, have not yet settled into an accepted terminology, and a definitive taxonomy has not yet evolved. We recommend that you avoid words and concepts like “new media writing” and “eliterature” in your searches as this terminology can apply to everything in the archive. Please consider using alternative words in your searches, and be as nonspecific as possible. The format field is a useful way to pin down works created using a particular technology such as Flash or Javascript. We have attempted to list every author or editor (creator) and contributor for each piece, but we have taken the spellings etc. from the original works, which, especially for raw contributive projects, may not have been definitive. If you can’t find your own name or project consider whether you submitted under some diminutive, alternative, online name, pen-name or maybe even with an accidental typo. The best answer is both. The archive version may not be the most recent, therefore you should always try to cite the most up to date version, whether on the trAce server or elsewhere. Example: Ismayilova, Dilara, quoted in Home, trAce Online Writing Centre, 2002-2004, http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/home/log/Home/test1.cfm?story_start=40 (last accessed 15th July 2005) (Archived at http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/home/log/Home/test1.cfm?story_start=40) We are happy for the trAce archive to be used in teaching and learning. Please cite the trAce Archive and website fully, as appropriate (see above). We regret that the funding has concluded for this stage of the project and we are unable to make changes. The archive covers only 1995-mid 2005. No further works will be added. There are two ways in which you may encounter an error. The archive is publicly open on the Web to whoever wishes to search it, researcher, author, reader, or general interest. The trAce website has been evolving for ten years and is difficult to search. This archive has a permanent URL and forms a static and searchable snapshot of the site. All collaborative and individual works of new media writing that were hosted on the trAce website, developed by writers employed by trAce, or commissioned by or submitted for projects with trAce are included in the archive. General and administrative trAce pages are not included. Examples of works included (there are many more types)Examples of items not includedtrAce has published works both on its own server and by linking offsite. Some of the offsite works have since disappeared (e.g., some in curated collections such as the frame Journal of Culture and Technology). We have wherever possible secured a version of the work - as at December 2004 or whenever the work was published at trAce - to hold on the archive server. This may not be the same as the versions of the work held offsite and referred to on our pages. All works on the archive server have been either transferred directly from the trAce server or supplied to us by the original author where the work was not originally on our server. We have not attempted to “fix” or correct any of the works. Many of the works were created in early or proprietary versions of Javascript or HTML, and we cannot be responsible for works that do not now display or operate as originally intended. In some cases we were unable to locate or acquire the original works and for those we can only give the original URL. We designed the XML schema for the archive specifically for this project, choosing fields based on the Dublin Core plus some custom fields to suit the needs of searching trAce, such as
The XML format is open to future development, for example in most cases the long description field is not fully completed and a future project might develop the information available here Sadly, no. The project began before the Creative Commons license was invented and we have never had the resources to return to the earliest years and revisit the issue from scratch. Every effort has been made to ascertain the copyright in all the works archived here and to seek permission to include them. We encourage scholars wishing to make a study of the work of trAce and its associated writers and artists. For information on how to access the trAce print archive and other materials, please e-mail or write to Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK.
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