[5] The NEXT uses an Extended Electronic Metadata Schema (ELMS) to describe the complex and interactive digital works it holds.
[6] Electronic literature pieces have used software available at the time that are since obsolete, such as HyperCard, Eastgate Systems' StorySpace, Director, ToolBox, and Flash.
Coverley--and the NEXT Museum re-imagined, migrated, and developed video playthroughs of these works as they were written on now-obsolete software.
The NEXT Museum has curated and collected works from these journals, including the Iowa Review Web (1999-2008) BeeHive (1998 -2004), Cauldron and Net (1997-2002 founded by Claire Dinsmore), Poems That Go (2000-2004), Turbulence.org (1996-2016 co-founded by Jo-Anne Green), and The New River (1996 - present).
[16] Stuart Moulthrop and Dene Grigar co-authored two works to document The NEXT's Pathfinder project, which provided video and audio recordings of currently inaccessible works using historically appropriate platforms, termed "traversals":[17][18][19] Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature (June 2015)[20][21][22] and Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing[23][24] (April 2017).