Darryl Whetter continued:

Match Destination Formatting will use poetry, on paper and online, to investigate evolution, media and community as they have been and will be observed around the globally unique fossil resource at Joggins, Nova Scotia. The project will use textual sources in the public domain (including nineteenth-century science free from copyright and popular sources such as Wikipedia articles) to build poems which concern record-keeping (including writing), media communities, and the science of evolution as it has been recorded in the globally respected but nationally neglected fossil endowment at Joggins. The project’s experiments with computer-generated poetry will combine with its parallel existence as print- and e-literature to meet the digital interests of students and contemporary readers while offering national cultural attention to the Joggins Fossil Institute and its 2007-2008 application for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The fossils of Joggins are vital to evolutionary history and science and offer unparalleled palaecological value, yet they are radically under-appreciated in Canada. These fossils are unearthed regularly but erratically by the erosive force of the Bay of Fundy (which has the highest tides in the world). Entombed within a thirty-kilometre-deep seam of rock, the fossils—which span fifteen million years of Earth history—are pried loose by tidal forces which threaten to swallow them into the ocean out of which they evolved more than three-hundred-million years ago. This intersection of forces which both create and destroy records of past (non-human) communities is reflected textually by Match Destination Formatting’s use of computers to both write and distribute poetry .