https://pls.simonbrowne.biz/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Simon&feedformat=atomParallel Library Services - User contributions [en-gb]2024-03-29T13:16:28ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.36.2https://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Collaborative_writing_and_self-publishing_workflows&diff=2693Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows2022-06-13T17:10:08Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows<br />
|location detail=Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br />
|date detail=February 23rd, 2022<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-9<br />
|tools detail=[[Octomode]], [[CryptPad]]<br />
|guests detail= [[David Benqué]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Context ==<br />
<br />
Experimentation with collaborative writing and self-publishing using open-source tools are common in free software circles, but what about within activist groups who want to share resources without the necessary specialist technical knowledge required to administrate them? What are the tools we use on a daily basis, and how does their use affect us in both our private and public lives?<br />
<br />
We aimed to work towards making a "resonant publication", one which is made collaboratively in a [[DIWO: Do It With Others|do-it-with-others]] mode where everyone was involved in both making the editorial content and structure, as well as realising the design through use of a collaborative, experimental writing tool, Varia's [[Octomode]].<br />
<br />
== Guests ==<br />
<br />
Our guest for this workshop was David Benqué, a researcher and current design lead for [[CryptPad]], a fully encrypted and open-source collaboration suite of software, which can be self-hosted or used at the public instance https://cryptpad.fr.<br />
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[[File:radical-google-docs_01.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_02.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_03.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_04.png|300px]]<br />
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[[File:radical-google-docs_05.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_06.png|300px]]<br />
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[[File:radical-google-docs_09.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_10.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_11.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:radical-google-docs_12.png|300px]]<br />
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== Tools ==<br />
<br />
For this workshop, we tried making a publication using the experimental tool Octomode, developed by Manetta Berends at [[Varia]] for "resonant publishing", which allows PDF publications to be made collaboratively using [[Markdown]], [[Etherpad]], [[CSS]] for paged media and [[Paged.js]] to preview the content in the browser.<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
We decided to begin with a section from a text David mentioned in his presentation: "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies". The term "unspectacular labour" is mentioned in this section of the text as a description of radical media technology work done by Lesbian feminists. It set of an inspirational publishing sprint in the session to follow as we worked in Octomode together.<br />
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[[File:Octomatic_01.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:Octomatic_02.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:Octomatic_03.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:Octomatic_04.png|300px]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=WordMord:_No_Annotation_is_Alone&diff=2692WordMord: No Annotation is Alone2022-06-13T17:08:56Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=WordMord: No Annotation is Alone<br />
|location detail=Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br />
|date detail=January 26th, 2022<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br />
|tools detail= [[Tesseract]], [[ImageMagick]]<br />
|guests detail= [[User:Ageliki |Aggeliki Diakrousi]], [[WordMord]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
--- Work(d)session---<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
This workshop "WordMord: No Annotation is Alone", was driven by the particular practices of the [[WordMord]] collective research group. With the urgent understanding that words can kill, WordMord works with annotation as an activist strategy. <br />
<br />
== Guests ==<br />
<br />
In this workshop, we were joined by Angeliki Diakrousi and some of the WordMord team. <br />
<br />
The PDF format is technically quite fixed (unlike EPUB) - and our plan was to make annotative interventions upon the rigidity of fixed formats, such as PDF, to challenge established protocols. Rooted in intersectional feminist methodologies, WordMord questions the language and the legal systems around the use of the term 'femicide' in the Greek context.<br />
<br />
A short description of a WordMord intervention on a particular legal PDF document:<br />
<br />
"PDF as a democratic means of digitally publishing a criminal code, makes the law accessible to everyone. It is a static tool for sharing institutional knowledge that does not easily allow for editing and commenting on its content. Each digital tool contains a narrative as a guidance mechanism with specific technical and ideological constraints. The way of using a PDF is universally accepted and stored in collective memory. Similarly, the original content of this PDF is determined by entrenched decisions, based on the perpetuation of old habits, and in turn determines dominant social, institutional and ideological behaviours."<br />
<br />
== Tools ==<br />
<br />
We used tools such as Python3, [[Tesseract]], and [[ImageMagick]] to go through the experimental workflow the WordMord team has been using. <br />
<br />
In preparation, participants were asked to bring formal, bureaucratic or legal PDFs that become obstacles for them or their community, e.g.:<br />
<br />
* constitutional laws and bylaws<br />
* penal codes (e.g. the city, copyright)<br />
* houserules<br />
* legal forms<br />
* terms and conditions<br />
* manuals<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
We began by reading together an excerpt from Chapter Four ("The Weather”, pg 113 - pg 120) of Christina Sharpe's "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being", which is about what she calls “Black Annotation" and “Black Redaction", part of the "wake work" of Black survival.<br />
</blockquote><br />
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==WORDMORD - NO ANNOTATION IS ALONE==<br />
<br />
http://wordmord-ur.la/<br />
<br />
WordMord believes that the violence of language is not eradicated by merely deleting/erasing words, but rather by transversing their violent imposition through specific practices that trouble and disrupt grammatical consistency, semantic norms, ‘correct’ pronunciation, ‘proper’ bodily posture. The rupture of linguistic limits suggests the possibility of experiencing language in its materiality.<br />
<br />
WordMord poses questions on the relationship between language, technology, trauma and violence. The collective artistic research will evolve through workshops, presentations and artworks. Through collaborations with artists, activists and groups working on feminist coding,WordMord seeks to shape an online rhizomatic space as an active feminist archive. At the same time, it project will provide tools and methods towards a poetically subversive meta/para/re-writing of derogatory narratives and consequently of trauma and violence. <br />
Wordmord seeks to connect art with queer feminist activism and emancipated life. Through collaborations with artists, performers, linguists, lawyers, programmers, activists and groups working with feminist algorithmic and computational practices, it shapes an online rhizomatic space as an active feminist archive. WordMord´s initial research group consists of: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Ageliki Diakrousi, Christina Karagianni, Oýto Άrognos aka Stylianos Benetos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi. At a later stage Cristina Cochior and Manetta Berends joined the group to contribute with linguistic coding practices. It started in collaboration with the #CNMFPP in 2019.<br />
<br />
=== Formats of WordMord ===<br />
Weekly meetings (sharing our situated embodied languages and knowledges)<br />
<br />
* Workshops<br />
:* Let´s assemble our Wordy Arms_an open laboratory, 2020 at Haus der Statistik Berlin. Within the context of Glitter and Griff<br />
:* WordComminutes_a workshop on crashing language, 2021 at Eight<br />
:* "Dear [neutral] language, (...)" with Allison Parrish at Varia<br />
<br />
* Collective projects and subgroups (tentacles/threads)<br />
<br />
Tentacles: groups:<br />
:* onlania<br />
:* The Comminuters_musicgroup. A band στα σκαριά<br />
<br />
Tentacles: projects in process:<br />
:* Genealogy of queer feminist artistic and theoretical methodologies towards the deconstruction of patriarchal language <br />
:* Wordlist<br />
:* Manyfesto by onlania<br />
:* Καμία επισημείωση δεν είναι μόνη / No annotation is alone<br />
:* Para-dictionary/Lexikon<br />
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== Re(d)action ==<br />
https://parallel-library.simonbrowne.biz/calibre/read/49/pdf#page=126<br />
<br />
Redaction<br />
Reaction<br />
Readaction<br />
<br />
OuNuPo: https://issue.xpub.nl/05/<br />
(especially Chapter 4 - Natasha Berting How Bias Spreads from the Canon to the Web + Erase / Replace)<br />
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== Annotate the web ==<br />
https://web.hypothes.is/<br />
<br />
Hypothes.is is a 501(c) open-source software project that aims to collect comments about statements made in any web-accessible content, and filter and rank those comments to assess each statement's credibility.<br />
[from Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
<br />
XPPL: https://issue.xpub.nl/06/<br />
<br />
https://w-i-t-m.net/images/xppl_interface.jpg<br />
(especially Annotations interface by Angeliki https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Angeliki/X-LIB/Annotations<br />
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== No Annotation is Alone ==<br />
<br />
"PDF as a democratic means of digitally publishing a criminal code, makes the law accessible to everyone. It is a static tool for sharing institutional knowledge that does not easily allow for editing and commenting on its content. Each digital tool contains a narrative as a guidance mechanism with specific technical and ideological constraints. The way of using a PDF is universally accepted and stored in collective memory. Similarly, the original content of this PDF is determined by entrenched decisions, based on the perpetuation of old habits, and in turn determines dominant social, institutional and ideological behaviours."<br />
<br />
== No Annotation is Alone - Tool ==<br />
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[Instructions made by WordMord]<br />
=== Install ===<br />
MAC: first install homebrew and Python3<br />
$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"<br />
$ brew install python3<br />
<br />
WINDOWS: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/<br />
<br />
Create a Python virtual environment & activate it<br />
$ python3 -m venv venv<br />
$ . venv/bin/activate<br />
<br />
==== Install tesseract-ocr ====<br />
<br />
LINUX:<br />
$ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr<br />
MAC:<br />
$ brew install tesseract-lang<br />
<br />
$ tesseract --list-langs<br />
If the language you want is not there check languages here: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files-in-different-versions.html<br />
<br />
Install the languages you want:<br />
$ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-ell<br />
<br />
$ sudo apt install imagemagick OR $ brew install imagemagick<br />
<br />
$ pip install reportlab<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Annotate the PDF ===<br />
Download the scripts <br />
http://wordmord-ur.la/tools/<br />
<br />
$ convert [name0fyourFile].pdf [name0fyourFile].png<br />
This converts all pages in the pdf into png files, for example if image.pdf is a 2-page PDF, running the above command will produce two PNG files called <br />
image-0.png<br />
image-1.png <br />
<br />
To specify a page of a PDF to convert to jpg:<br />
<br />
*specify page of pdf adding page number (numbered from 0) in square brackets after .pdf<br />
<br />
simon: I just tested this and it only produced this output: <br />
no matches found: image.pdf[0]<br />
<br />
$ tesseract -l [language] [name0fyourFile].png [name0fyourFile] hocr<br />
<br />
Download the scripts from here: http://wordmord-ur.la/tools/<br />
<br />
Make a new searchable pdf:<br />
$ python3 hocrtransform-invisible-PDF.py -i [name0fyourFile].png [HocrFile].hocr [NewPDF].pdf<br />
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==== hocr ====<br />
hOCR is an open standard of data representation for formatted text obtained from optical character recognition (OCR). The definition encodes text, style, layout information, recognition confidence metrics and other information using Extensible Markup Language (XML) in the form of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or XHTML. [from Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
View the text (produced as hocr) within the pdf ( from<br />
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Optical_character_recognition_with_Tesseract )<br />
==== using hocrjs ====<br />
We will use [https://github.com/kba/hocrjs#user-script User Script] instruction with Tampermonkey.<br />
<br />
* open Firefox<br />
* go to FF addons and search for Tampermonkey<br />
* install it<br />
* Browse to [https://unpkg.com/hocrjs/dist/hocr.user.js unpkg.com/hocrjs/dist/hocr.user.js]<br />
** click "Install". It will install the script in your browser Tampermonkey<br />
** click the Tampermonkey and go to the "Dashboard". hocr-viewer should be enabled<br />
<br />
==== View the hocr int the Firefox====<br />
* change the extension of your hocr file from .hocr to .html<br />
* open the .html file in firefox<br />
<br />
Edit the hocr file with a text editor and replace words [editedHocrFile].hocr<br />
<br />
Make a new searchable pdf with an annotated hocr:<br />
$ python3 hocrtransform-invisible-PDF.py -i [name0fyourFile].png [editedHocrFile].hocr [NewAnnotatedPDF].pdf<br />
<br />
== Annotation replaces the initial content ==<br />
<br />
$ python3 hocrtransform-visible-pdf.py -i [name0fyourFile].png [editedHocrFile].hocr [TransformedPDF].pdf</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Digitising,_scanning,_processing_and_republishing&diff=2691Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing2022-06-13T17:07:20Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=December 8th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br />
|tools detail= [[Tesseract]], [[OCRmyPDF]], [[PDFsandwich]]<br />
|guests detail= [[Pedro Sá Couto]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
Digitising printed matter involves more than scanning - to make a file searchable it requires a text layer. In this workshop, we were joined by guest speaker Pedro Sá Couto, a designer and PhD researcher based on Porto, Portugal interested in the realm of surveillance in publishing digital and analog media. Pedro presented his work on projects such as Tactical Watermarks, an online republishing platform that adds user-generated watermarks to uploaded PDFs. His more recent PhD research follows copy shops located near Portuguese academic instituions, which act as “informal libraries”. <br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
Pertinent to this topic, we explored the process of digitising printed books, from scan to a PDF with and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) layer. The second half of the workshop took a deep dive into using [[tesseract]], an open-source OCR engine. While tesseract does a good job of recognising the characters in printed text, other software is needed to compile the PDF. Following some experiments with Tesseract, we trialled software such as OCRmyPDF and PDFsandwich, which can compile and run OCR in one command.<br />
<br />
[[Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF]]<br />
<br />
[[Make_searchable_PDFs]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Digitising,_scanning,_processing_and_republishing&diff=2690Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing2022-06-13T17:06:49Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=December 8th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br />
|tools detail= [[Tesseract]], [[OCRmyPDF]], [[pdfsandwich]]<br />
|guests detail= [[Pedro Sá Couto]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
Digitising printed matter involves more than scanning - to make a file searchable it requires a text layer. In this workshop, we were joined by guest speaker Pedro Sá Couto, a designer and PhD researcher based on Porto, Portugal interested in the realm of surveillance in publishing digital and analog media. Pedro presented his work on projects such as Tactical Watermarks, an online republishing platform that adds user-generated watermarks to uploaded PDFs. His more recent PhD research follows copy shops located near Portuguese academic instituions, which act as “informal libraries”. <br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
Pertinent to this topic, we explored the process of digitising printed books, from scan to a PDF with and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) layer. The second half of the workshop took a deep dive into using [[tesseract]], an open-source OCR engine. While tesseract does a good job of recognising the characters in printed text, other software is needed to compile the PDF. Following some experiments with Tesseract, we trialled software such as OCRmyPDF and pdfsandwich, which can compile and run OCR in one command.<br />
<br />
[[Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF]]<br />
<br />
[[Make_searchable_PDFs]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Organising_library_structure,_classifying_and_cataloguing_texts&diff=2689Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts2022-06-13T17:05:28Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) and online<br />
|date detail=10th November, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CEST<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br />
|tools detail= [[Wikibase]], [[Wikidata]]<br />
|guests detail= [[Lozana Rossenova]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Context ==<br />
<br />
From self-managed libraries to open structured data, there are many ways to organise libraries. In this workshop we were joined by [[Lozana Rossenova]], a designer and researcher, who presented some of her work on the [[DAAP|Digital Archive of Artist's Publishing]], an archive of net art made for Rhizome and the structuring of the data using the [[Wikibase]] extension of [[MediaWiki]].<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After Lozana's presentation, we took a deep dive into open structured data. This began with looking at the [[Wikidata]] website (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page), and learning more about the project. Items in the Wikidata database have particular "Q numbers", which are unique numbers used to identify the item. Many of these are historical and relate to the order in which items were initially entered ("the universe" is Q1, "earth" is Q2), however Q42 is reserved for Douglas Adams as an inside joke.<br />
<br />
Items such as the Earth are labelled with aliases (also known as). They also have been given properties, and linked to objects. For example, Earth is listed as:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>Earth; instance of; planet</blockquote><br />
<br />
''Earth'' is the subject, ''instance of'' is the property, and '''planet''' is the object.<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikidata-earth.png|600px|Earth (Q2)]]<br />
<br />
Earth (Q2) does not have many aliases, unlike Rembrant (Q5598):<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikidata-rembrant.png|600px|Rembrant (Q5598)]]<br />
<br />
== Exercises ==<br />
<br />
We began by making accounts on WBStack, a platform from which you can create new wikis with the Wikibase extension installed. From here you can choose a name for your wiki and URL:<br />
<br />
[[File:WBStack-register-wiki.png|600px]]<br />
<br />
Next step is to set skin and registration details:<br />
<br />
[[File:WBStack-wiki-settings.png|600px]]<br />
<br />
In the features tab you can choose how to map existing properties in WikiData:<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikidata-map-properties.png|600px]]<br />
<br />
One of the crucial choices you make when registering a wiki is whether to federate the 10,000+ properties of WikiData, or to begin from scratch:<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikidata-federate-properties.png|600px]]<br />
<br />
Finally, we started making items and adding properties on our wikis:<br />
<br />
[[File:Wikibase-simon-item.png|600px]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2688Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-06-13T17:04:28Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
|tools detail= [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]], [[Calibre]]<br />
|guests detail= -<br />
}}<br />
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== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
Alongside PDF, EPUB is also a common digital book format. Using Calibre's document conversion features, we tried converting a Microsoft Word document (in .docx format) from <br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2687Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-06-13T17:04:01Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
|tools detail= [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]], [[Calibre]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
Alongside PDF, EPUB is also a common digital book format. Using Calibre's document conversion features, we tried converting a Microsoft Word document (in .docx format) from <br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2686Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-06-13T17:03:52Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
|tools detail= [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]], [[Calibre]]<br />
|guests detail=<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
Alongside PDF, EPUB is also a common digital book format. Using Calibre's document conversion features, we tried converting a Microsoft Word document (in .docx format) from <br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Introducing_digital_library_types_and_setup&diff=2685Introducing digital library types and setup2022-06-13T17:02:42Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail= Introducing digital library types and setup<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) and online<br />
|date detail= 27th October, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CEST<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br />
|tools detail= [[Bibliotecha]]<br />
|guests detail= [[Luke Murphy]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
There are a few tried-and-tested tools for digital librarianship, many of which depend in some way on the open-source ebook management software [[Calibre]]. In this workshop, we were joined by guest [[Luke Murphy]], one of the people working on the [[Bibliotecha]] project, which is a framework for using Calibre to serve files over a [[LAN|local area network]].<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Some participants had brought some minimal equipment to try to install Bibliotecha. It is designed to be self-hosted and run on a computer within a local area network on a wifi hotspot that is created during the installation.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bibliotecha_in_book.png|thumb|Bibliotecha: digital books need libraries too]]<br />
<br />
With Luke we discussed a few different options for hosting [[Calibre]]-based digital library systems, from homebrewed (self-hosted) servers to VPS (Virtual Private Server). There was the opportunity to see the type of hardware required for setting up a homebrewed server - a cheap singleboard microcomputer such as Raspberry Pi can easily run a local instance of Bibliotecha.<br />
<br />
A basic set of equipment is:<br />
<br />
* a cheap computer with a wifi interface (e.g. Raspberry Pi 3 or 4)<br />
* a screen with cables to connect to the computer<br />
* a keyboard<br />
* a router<br />
* an SD card (minimum 32GB)<br />
* an ethernet cable<br />
<br />
The software installation process is well documented here: https://manual.bibliotecha.info<br />
<br />
We went through an installation of the software on different computers in our various locations, screensharing a terminal window to show what commands to write and when.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bibliotecha_install_Varia.jpg|thumb|Installation of Bibliotecha at Varia]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Template:Meeting-data&diff=2684Template:Meeting-data2022-06-13T17:02:27Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
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<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail= Introducing digital library types and setup<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) and online<br />
|date detail= 27th October, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CEST<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br />
|tools detail= [[Bibliotecha]]<br />
|guest detail= [[Luke Murphy]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
There are a few tried-and-tested tools for digital librarianship, many of which depend in some way on the open-source ebook management software [[Calibre]]. In this workshop, we were joined by guest [[Luke Murphy]], one of the people working on the [[Bibliotecha]] project, which is a framework for using Calibre to serve files over a [[LAN|local area network]].<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Some participants had brought some minimal equipment to try to install Bibliotecha. It is designed to be self-hosted and run on a computer within a local area network on a wifi hotspot that is created during the installation.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bibliotecha_in_book.png|thumb|Bibliotecha: digital books need libraries too]]<br />
<br />
With Luke we discussed a few different options for hosting [[Calibre]]-based digital library systems, from homebrewed (self-hosted) servers to VPS (Virtual Private Server). There was the opportunity to see the type of hardware required for setting up a homebrewed server - a cheap singleboard microcomputer such as Raspberry Pi can easily run a local instance of Bibliotecha.<br />
<br />
A basic set of equipment is:<br />
<br />
* a cheap computer with a wifi interface (e.g. Raspberry Pi 3 or 4)<br />
* a screen with cables to connect to the computer<br />
* a keyboard<br />
* a router<br />
* an SD card (minimum 32GB)<br />
* an ethernet cable<br />
<br />
The software installation process is well documented here: https://manual.bibliotecha.info<br />
<br />
We went through an installation of the software on different computers in our various locations, screensharing a terminal window to show what commands to write and when.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bibliotecha_install_Varia.jpg|thumb|Installation of Bibliotecha at Varia]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Introducing_digital_library_types_and_setup&diff=2682Introducing digital library types and setup2022-06-13T17:01:21Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail= Introducing digital library types and setup<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) and online<br />
|date detail= 27th October, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CEST<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br />
|tools detail= [[Bibliotecha]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
There are a few tried-and-tested tools for digital librarianship, many of which depend in some way on the open-source ebook management software [[Calibre]]. In this workshop, we were joined by guest [[Luke Murphy]], one of the people working on the [[Bibliotecha]] project, which is a framework for using Calibre to serve files over a [[LAN|local area network]].<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
Some participants had brought some minimal equipment to try to install Bibliotecha. It is designed to be self-hosted and run on a computer within a local area network on a wifi hotspot that is created during the installation.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bibliotecha_in_book.png|thumb|Bibliotecha: digital books need libraries too]]<br />
<br />
With Luke we discussed a few different options for hosting [[Calibre]]-based digital library systems, from homebrewed (self-hosted) servers to VPS (Virtual Private Server). There was the opportunity to see the type of hardware required for setting up a homebrewed server - a cheap singleboard microcomputer such as Raspberry Pi can easily run a local instance of Bibliotecha.<br />
<br />
A basic set of equipment is:<br />
<br />
* a cheap computer with a wifi interface (e.g. Raspberry Pi 3 or 4)<br />
* a screen with cables to connect to the computer<br />
* a keyboard<br />
* a router<br />
* an SD card (minimum 32GB)<br />
* an ethernet cable<br />
<br />
The software installation process is well documented here: https://manual.bibliotecha.info<br />
<br />
We went through an installation of the software on different computers in our various locations, screensharing a terminal window to show what commands to write and when.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bibliotecha_install_Varia.jpg|thumb|Installation of Bibliotecha at Varia]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=First_meeting,_Introductions,_Code_of_Conduct_and_Infrastructour&diff=2681First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour2022-06-13T17:00:35Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail= First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour<br />
|location detail=Online<br />
|date detail= 13th October, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CEST<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br />
|tools detail= [[Etherpad]], [[Calibre-web]], [[MediaWiki]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
We all met online for the first time, through a web conferencing video call to introduce ourselves as a group of 10 participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
== Tools ==<br />
For the workshop series, the following ancillary infrastructure was created:<br />
<br />
* a dedicated [[MediaWiki]] instance, this wiki<br />
* a [[Calibre-web]] instance, called "parallel library"<br />
* an Etherpad instance for note-taking and communication purposes<br />
* an email mailing list for participants to communicate together: pls[at]post.lurk.org<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
We took an "infrastructour” of the digital resources ([[MediaWiki]], [[Calibre-web]] and [[Etherpad]]); making user accounts and becoming familiar with wikitext, uploading to a digital library and collaborative writing in pads.<br />
<br />
[[File:Parallel-library.png|600px|The "parallel-library" used for the workshop series]]<br />
<br />
Following the [[Wiki tutorial|wiki tutorial]], we added text, links and images to our user pages with MediaWiki syntax:<br />
<br />
[[File:Wiki-syntax.png|600px|MediaWiki syntax]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Etherpad_introductions.png|600px|Etherpad introductions]]<br />
<br />
We also began drafting a Code of Conduct on a pad, which was completed by the next workshop on October 27th. The final draft was later added to this wiki as the [[PLS_Code_of_Conduct|PLS Code of Conduct]], taking some inspiration from the [https://www.internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Code_of_Conduct IFF CoC].</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=First_meeting,_Introductions,_Code_of_Conduct_and_Infrastructour&diff=2680First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour2022-06-13T17:00:15Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail= First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour<br />
|location detail=Online<br />
|date detail= 13th October, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CEST<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br />
|tools detail= [[Etherpad]], [[Calibre-web]], [[Mediawiki]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
We all met online for the first time, through a web conferencing video call to introduce ourselves as a group of 10 participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
== Tools ==<br />
For the workshop series, the following ancillary infrastructure was created:<br />
<br />
* a dedicated [[MediaWiki]] instance, this wiki<br />
* a [[Calibre-web]] instance, called "parallel library"<br />
* an Etherpad instance for note-taking and communication purposes<br />
* an email mailing list for participants to communicate together: pls[at]post.lurk.org<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
We took an "infrastructour” of the digital resources ([[MediaWiki]], [[Calibre-web]] and [[Etherpad]]); making user accounts and becoming familiar with wikitext, uploading to a digital library and collaborative writing in pads.<br />
<br />
[[File:Parallel-library.png|600px|The "parallel-library" used for the workshop series]]<br />
<br />
Following the [[Wiki tutorial|wiki tutorial]], we added text, links and images to our user pages with MediaWiki syntax:<br />
<br />
[[File:Wiki-syntax.png|600px|MediaWiki syntax]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Etherpad_introductions.png|600px|Etherpad introductions]]<br />
<br />
We also began drafting a Code of Conduct on a pad, which was completed by the next workshop on October 27th. The final draft was later added to this wiki as the [[PLS_Code_of_Conduct|PLS Code of Conduct]], taking some inspiration from the [https://www.internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Code_of_Conduct IFF CoC].</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Template:Meeting-data&diff=2679Template:Meeting-data2022-06-13T16:59:19Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{| class="wikitable"<br />
! {{{title detail}}}<br />
|-<br />
| Location: {{{location detail}}} <br />
|-<br />
| Date: {{{date detail}}} <br />
|-<br />
| Time: {{{time detail}}} <br />
|-<br />
| Pad: {{{pad detail}}}<br />
|-<br />
| Tools: {{{tools detail}}}<br />
|}</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Vie&diff=2678User:Vie2022-05-25T08:10:41Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>Vie<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:Het inwendige van de Maastunnel, Bestanddeelnr 901-3904.jpg|Het_inwendige_van_de_Maastunnel,_Bestanddeelnr_901-3904 | 400px]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Maria&diff=2677User:Maria2022-05-25T08:10:26Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>Maria van der Togt (she/her) lives and works in Amsterdam. She is nothing short of tantalized by Algorithms. Hyperaware her brain is shaped by the neoliberal world, dominated by lines of code, in which she grew into an adult. As an artist and spatial practitioner, she find herself intrigued by the role that space plays within these structures. Her work is an exploration into the spatial implications of data architecture; Continuously dissecting the digital structures that guide our on/off-line interactions. She engages with the matter through writing, video works and installations. Her current focus lays with piracy and post-digital archiving.<br />
<br />
Find some of her work here http://mariavandertogt.com/<br />
<br />
See the community Library she's working on here http://82.169.206.188/<br />
<br />
Get in contact with her through mariavdtogt@gmail.com<br />
<br />
Or here https://www.instagram.com/mariavandertogt/<br />
<br />
[[File:Distribution centre (J Sainsbury's).jpg|thumb|Distribution centre (J Sainsbury's)]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Mncmncmnc&diff=2676User:Mncmncmnc2022-05-25T08:10:11Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Max's Page ==<br />
This is the user page for Maxwell Neely-Cohen. <br />
<br><br />
He lives elsewhere on the internet [http://www.maxy.world/ here]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:Cole Thomas The Course of Empire Destruction 1836.jpg|Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_Destruction_1836 |thumb|]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Amy_G&diff=2675User:Amy G2022-05-25T08:09:59Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>I'm Amy, a book, reading, publishing, and library enthusiast. I'm originally from a small town in England called Hereford, but now live in Rotterdam. Over the past few years I've worked as an editor, publication manager, researcher, curator and programmer, but more than anything, I'm a reader.<br />
<br />
I spend most of my waking hours thinking and interacting with books, and I am continuously fascinated by their societal role as producers, sharers and challengers of knowledge and experience, as well as the systems in which books are themselves produced, shared, distributed and cared for. <br />
<br />
In March of 2020, I organised [https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/meeting-grounds-edition-one-the-public-library/ Meeting Grounds: The Public Library] a programme and publication which looked at libraries as social infrastructure for the city and as public spaces. As part of this project I collaborated with a number of libraries and librarians, mainly in Eindhoven but also beyond, including Simon Browne, Bibliotheca, Van Abbe Queer Book Club, IFL (Informal Feminist Library), The Wave Book Club & Bibliotheek Eindhoven. <br />
<br />
It is only in the last couple of years that I've started to understand books, libraries, librarianship, and publishing outside of their traditional roles and realms, predominantly as a result of my interactions with pirate libraries, publishing as commons (still learning about this one), social readers/reading, and contingent librarianship, and I am excited to explore this, and more, more.<br />
<br />
I hope to one day gather the knowledge and experience gained through these interactions to begin my own publishing venture. But until then I am most satisfied being a bookish enthusiast.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Britt&diff=2674User:Britt2022-05-25T08:09:45Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>archivist-researcher-writer<br />
[[File:Card catalog from page 167 of "Manual of library classification and shelf arrangement" (1898).jpg|thumb|Card catalog from page 167 of "Manual of library classification and shelf arrangement" (1898)]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:FLIP_KIOSK&diff=2673User:FLIP KIOSK2022-05-25T08:09:31Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>KIOSK Rotterdam. Providing goods and gadgets. Make your dealer, your healer.<br />
<br />
In 2019 I became the janitor of Pension Almonde, a temporary home in transition to demolishment. I fixed dripping taps, broken central heating systems, clogged toilets, etc. You could find me daily at the reception, almondestraat 179, where I welcomed guests, processed payments and handed out keys. 24/7 available, as I was living above the space. <br />
<br />
Since February, 2020 I started selling books on a voluntary basis from the reception. KIOSK was open by appointment and with fixed times on Wednesday and Thursday from 18.00 - 21.00, funded by my student debt. It started off with a personal selection and grew to a collection of titles informed by people who visited and shared their research (personal and/or academic).<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:Sønderhav Annies Kiosk, 2007.jpg|Sønderhav_Annies_Kiosk,_2007]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://kioskrotterdam.com]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Gg&diff=2672User:Gg2022-05-25T08:09:16Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Mateus ==<br />
<br />
><br />
Mateus (gg/ghostglyph) is an artist and writer working in Leicester, UK. His work has included games, p2p networks, 3d printing, fictional alphabets, maps and filmmaking. He's interested in exploring narrative, place, text and language. He runs a meetup for Leicester-based artists called FTP, at Phoenix. He publishes experimental fiction and other texts at [https://bruise.in BRUISE]. He is an Mres student at CSNI.<br />
<br />
<<br />
I have started a Bibliotecha instance running from a Raspberry Pi 3b. See [[Bruise Bibliotecha]].<br />
<br />
Informed by the PLS discussions I'm interested in thinking more about the physicality of these libraries. I'd like to see if it's possible to run a couple of instances in the region and rotate them periodically, creating traveling libraries.<br />
<br />
These discussions along with work on a research project (Careful Networks) has prompted several other experiments- producing several tools, workflows and constraints. In some respects it feels as if these are often applying the [[Tasks of the Contingent Librarian]] to conditions in which there is no library yet at the centre or in which the library remains an abstracted possibility - in which these groupings perform a clearing of the space.<br />
<br />
I'm increasingly drawn to explore further the things that happen to the human in these networks, as interactions are mediated by human and non-human entities.<br />
<br />
===== Notes =====<br />
[https://gg-notes.glitch.me/ gg-notes] is a very simple web page that allows a user to create and save a simple .txt file. The use I'm imagining is that a visitor to the library could easily leave a record of their reading or annotation within the library.<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Portable boards =====<br />
The digital of digital - screenless devices encountered by fingertips. Tiny devices that can be programmed in relatively simple code, very quickly making things happen outside of the screen. It transgresses through different layers of The Stack. The kind of programming we're exploring here creates archipelagos, odd extrusions and fields of signal.<br />
<br />
It is small and vulnerable. Adding functions and processes increases the attack surface. Inhabiting the space introduces risk. Who can bear that risk? What steps can be taken to mitigate the risk? Any interaction with the community is the result of a series of steps - at each point, defining the boundaries of the space, and what might constitute as safe usage. Acting safely within the network is a collaborative endeavor.<br />
<br />
Like accessing the [[Bootleg library]] or a local-only [[Bibliotecha]] instance, the specific url's and steps are shared locally. Something has to happen in the air of the space. The vectors of access translate across different surfaces and become noisy - susceptible to error, mistakes and surprises.<br />
<br />
The boards are Wemos D1 mini, ESP8266, low-cost wifi microchips. The practice here is simply a very loosely adapted approach to the firmware web server examples. The board runs a miniature offline web server. Users that access the board from their own devices can visit a simple web-page. A hardware text. The text is on the chip. It isn't useful like the library. It isn't read/write. It's store/read. It is storied. It is portable. It can travel broadcasting. It can be passed between friends. One version has a temporary message-board that can be populated as long as the board remains powered. After resetting any sigs are lost. There are of course ways of advancing the programming and for it to behave in the ways expected from a 'product'. However- retaining these difficulties and weaknesses offers routes to Luddite proclivities instead: building with awareness of security vulnerabilities (use must reflect that), this prevents certain behaviors but forces them to augment the constraints of the program rather than trusting the program, a limited, fragile, temporary space is the condition by which any media exists but is usually easy to forget in online practices.<br />
<br />
===== Exif publishing =====<br />
A sketch of a webring-type practice that considers a publishing material online in ways that don't necessitate writing html or interacting with a platform/WYSIWYG-type tool. Using [[ExifTool]] participants are invited to edit specific metadata values attached to a jpeg. The jpeg is uploaded to a host of their choosing - or emailed to the webring coordinator, and the URL of the image supplied to the coordinator. A central page is then created which loads in each of the jpegs from their various locations. As the images are loaded the js library, exif-js, pulls the specified metadata from the image and displays them alongside it. This framework creates a single-page ring with each participants content remaining easily editable by them. Dialogues could emerge between posts. Things could be removed. The images could exist without revealing their metadata on other websites or spaces. This practice, again, appears to replicate things achievable using conventional tools and platforms, but through a process that is ceding control to its participants at each step.<br />
<br />
===== Lossy =====<br />
Slightly more tangential are experiments with opening-hours/limited time webrings and CLI P2P browsing/hosting using Hyper.<br />
<br />
[[File:Prehistoric weaving.jpg|thumb|Prehistoric_weaving]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Ageliki&diff=2671User:Ageliki2022-05-25T08:08:45Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>Hey there<br />
<br />
[[File:Tstorms5m3a1245z-2332z.gif|Tstorms5m3a1245z-2332z]]<br />
<br />
== my name is angeliki but I prefer to take out the letter 'n' because the sound becomes more familiar to my ears ==<br />
I have studied at [https://xpub.nl/ XPUB] and I have joined [https://vvvvvvaria.org/ Varia]<br />
<br />
== here is == <br />
a link from my current work that relates to library practices:<br />
https://w-i-t-m.net/2020/feminist-search-tools.html<br />
<br />
and some old work in annotations:<br />
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Angeliki/X-LIB/Annotations<br />
<br />
and here a link of a current work related to language, trauma and violence<br />
http://wordmord-ur.la/<br />
<br />
==i have been very interested in feminist practices for a long time...==<br />
...and I want to 'break through' this word by learning and sharing with other contexts, that may be feminists outside of western discourses, but they are not identified as such. and maybe these contexts are more than feminists<br />
<br />
[[File:Wheatbelt, Western Australia (Satellite picture).jpg|thumb|Wheatbelt, Western Australia (Satellite picture)]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=User:Toof&diff=2670User:Toof2022-05-25T08:08:24Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>[https://toof.press https://toof.press]<br />
<br />
Kriston Chen is a designer and mas maker based in Trinidad and Tobago. He is part of an art space called Alice Yard ([http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/ https://aliceyard.blogspot.com/]), out of which he runs #1000mokos (https://www.instagram.com/1000mokos/), a stiltwalking/Moko Jumbie community project; and also the [[Jumbie Library]] — a shelf in the Mas camp. His work explores the relationship of publishing and Mas.<br />
<br />
[[File:Glab tabanca lores.jpg|thumb]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Librarians]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Dear_Navigator&diff=2669Dear Navigator2022-05-16T10:03:07Z<p>Simon: Created page with "Dear Navigator is part radio, part sonic collage about the city of Rotterdam. Category:Libraries"</p>
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<div>Dear Navigator is part radio, part sonic collage about the city of Rotterdam.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Libraries]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Digitising,_scanning,_processing_and_republishing&diff=2668Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing2022-05-12T10:20:39Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=December 8th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
Digitising printed matter involves more than scanning - to make a file searchable it requires a text layer. In this workshop, we were joined by guest speaker Pedro Sá Couto, a designer and PhD researcher based on Porto, Portugal interested in the realm of surveillance in publishing digital and analog media. Pedro presented his work on projects such as Tactical Watermarks, an online republishing platform that adds user-generated watermarks to uploaded PDFs. His more recent PhD research follows copy shops located near Portuguese academic instituions, which act as “informal libraries”. <br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
Pertinent to this topic, we explored the process of digitising printed books, from scan to a PDF with and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) layer. The second half of the workshop took a deep dive into using [[tesseract]], an open-source OCR engine. While tesseract does a good job of recognising the characters in printed text, other software is needed to compile the PDF. Following some experiments with Tesseract, we trialled software such as OCRmyPDF and pdfsandwich, which can compile and run OCR in one command.<br />
<br />
[[Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF]]<br />
<br />
[[Make_searchable_PDFs]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Digitising,_scanning,_processing_and_republishing&diff=2667Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing2022-05-12T10:20:11Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=December 8th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
Digitising printed matter involves more than scanning - to make a file searchable it requires a text layer. In this workshop, we were joined by guest speaker Pedro Sá Couto, a designer and PhD researcher based on Porto, Portugal interested in the realm of surveillance in publishing digital and analog media. Pedro presented his work on projects such as Tactical Watermarks, an online republishing platform that adds user-generated watermarks to uploaded PDFs. His more recent PhD research follows copy shops located near Portuguese academic instituions, which act as “informal libraries”. <br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
Pertinent to this topic, we explored the process of digitising printed books, from scan to a PDF with and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) layer. The second half of the workshop took a deep dive into using tesseract, an open-source OCR engine. While tesseract does a good job of recognising the characters in printed text, other software is needed to compile the PDF. Following some experiments with Tesseract, we trialled software such as OCRmyPDF and pdfsandwich, which can compile and run OCR in one command.<br />
<br />
[[Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF]]<br />
<br />
[[Make_searchable_PDFs]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF&diff=2666Add a text layer to a PDF with OCRmyPDF2022-05-12T10:15:21Z<p>Simon: /* Basic examples */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Basic examples=<br />
<br />
<code>ocrmypdf</code> has built-in help.<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf --help<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
==Add an OCR layer and convert to PDF/A==<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf input.pdf output.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
==Add an OCR layer and output a standard PDF==<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf --output-type pdf input.pdf output.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
==Create a PDF/A with all color and grayscale images converted to JPEG==<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf --output-type pdfa --pdfa-image-compression jpeg input.pdf output.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
== Modify a file in place ==<br />
<br />
The file will only be overwritten if OCRmyPDF is successful.<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf myfile.pdf myfile.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
== Correct page rotation ==<br />
<br />
OCR will attempt to automatic correct the rotation of each page. This can help fix a scanning job that contains a mix of landscape and portrait pages.<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf --rotate-pages myfile.pdf myfile.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
You can increase (decrease) the parameter <code>--rotate-pages-threshold</code> to make page rotation more (less) aggressive. The threshold number is the ratio of how confidence the OCR engine is that the document image should be changed, compared to kept the same. The default value is quite conservative; on some files it may not attempt rotations at all unless it is very confident that the current rotation is wrong. A lower value of 2.0 will produce more rotations, and more false positives. Run with <code>-v1</code> to see the confidence level for each page to see if there may be a better value for your files.<br />
<br />
If the page is “just a little off horizontal”, like a crooked picture, then you want <code>--deskew</code>. <code>--rotate-pages</code> is for when the cardinal angle is wrong.<br />
<br />
== OCR languages other than English ==<br />
<br />
OCRmyPDF assumes the document is in English unless told otherwise. OCR quality may be poor if the wrong language is used.<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf -l fra LeParisien.pdf LeParisien.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf -l eng+fra Bilingual-English-French.pdf Bilingual-English-French.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
Language packs must be installed for all languages specified. See [https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/languages.html#lang-packs Installing additional language packs].<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, the Tesseract OCR engine has no ability to detect the language when it is unknown.<br />
<br />
== Produce PDF and text file containing OCR text ==<br />
<br />
This produces a file named “output.pdf” and a companion text file named “output.txt”.<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
ocrmypdf --sidecar output.txt input.pdf output.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
Note: The sidecar file contains the OCR text found by OCRmyPDF. If the document contains pages that already have text, that text will not appear in the sidecar. If the option <code>--pages</code> is used, only those pages on which OCR was performed will be included in the sidecar. If certain pages were skipped because of options like <code>--skip-big</code> or <code>--tesseract-timeout</code>, those pages will not be in the sidecar.<br />
<br />
To extract all text from a PDF, whether generated from OCR or otherwise, use a program like [[Poppler|Poppler’s]] [[pdftotext]] or [[pdfgrep]].<br />
<br />
[[Category:Cookbook]]<br />
[[Category:OCRmyPDF]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Digitising,_scanning,_processing_and_republishing&diff=2665Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing2022-05-12T10:14:18Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=December 8th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
[[Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF]]<br />
<br />
[[Make_searchable_PDFs]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Digitising,_scanning,_processing_and_republishing&diff=2664Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing2022-05-12T10:13:39Z<p>Simon: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=December 8th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
[[Add_a_text_layer_to_a_PDF_with_OCRmyPDF]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2663Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T10:09:50Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
Alongside PDF, EPUB is also a common digital book format. Using Calibre's document conversion features, we tried converting a Microsoft Word document (in .docx format) from <br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2662Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:49:46Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2661Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:49:04Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We began by catching up on our projects, recording notes in a pad:<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2660Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:48:44Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to inspect metadata in PDFs using ExifTool, and then embed it with a Calibre plugin. This plugin, as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality, can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We began by catching up on our projects, recording notes in a pad:<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2659Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:47:40Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
After inspecting metadata in PDFs using ExifTool<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to embed metadata in PDFs using a Calibre plugin. This plugin, ,as well as many others that extend Calibre's functionality can be added to the main toolbar in Calibre easily. It was important to note that this is only possible in Calibre, [[Calibre-web]] does not support this, or other plugins.<br />
<br />
[[File:Calibre customise main toolbar.png|thumb|Calibre's main toolbar preferences]]<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We began by catching up on our projects, recording notes in a pad:<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2658Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:45:22Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
After inspecting metadata in PDFs using ExifTool<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]] (originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to embed metadata in PDFs using a Calibre plugin.<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We began by catching up on our projects, recording notes in a pad:<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2657Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:45:03Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with pandoc<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre (.docx > .epub) <br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
After inspecting metadata in PDFs using ExifTool<br />
<br />
We followed [[Create_portable_libraries_by_embedding_metadata_in_Calibre|a tutorial]]<br />
(originally written by Roel Roscam-Abbing) which shows how to embed metadata in PDFs using a Calibre plugin.<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We began by catching up on our projects, recording notes in a pad:<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Imagining_librarianship_%26_experiments_with_document_conversion&diff=2656Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion2022-05-12T09:42:41Z<p>Simon: /* Activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Meeting-data<br />
|title detail=Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion<br />
|location detail=At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online<br />
|date detail=November 24th, 2021<br />
|time detail=16:00-19:00 CET<br />
|pad detail=https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Context ==<br />
<br />
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".<br />
<br />
== Activities ==<br />
<br />
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:<br />
<br />
* a tour of Calibre<br />
* hybrid publishing workflows<br />
* embedding metadata in PDFs<br />
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF) with [[pandoc]]<br />
* converting between file formats in Calibre<br />
<br />
The first half of the workshop involved taking a close look at Calibre and hybrid publishing workflows using plain text file formats such as [[HTML]] and Markdown.<br />
<br />
Our workshop was documented on a pad using [[Markdown]] to create structure. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be useful in hybrid publishing, where inputs (plain text) may have may outputs (file formats). From the one document it is possible to create a variety of files, including EPUB, PDF, HTML and even Wikitext, the syntax MediaWiki uses.<br />
<br />
Markdown uses YAML metadata headers, which require a title in the initial metatdata block:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="markdown" line><br />
---<br />
title: my new document<br />
---<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
After this, it uses a simple syntax to make headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, lists (ordered and unordered), hyperlinks, and many more elements that can easily be converted to multiple file formats. This is part of a markdown publishing workflow, whereby content is gathered and structured in plain text documents. These are usually a source markdown document with the extension <code>.md</code>, and a stylesheet - in [[CSS]], for example - with the file extension <code>.css</code>.<br />
<br />
[[File:traditional_workflow.png|thumb|A traditional publishing workflow, with linear content creation and intense design activity to produce many formats (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 92)]]<br />
<br />
[[File:markdown_workflow.png|thumb|A "single source" publishing workflow, using a markup language such as Markdown to create content and design in parallel, with multiple formats to export to (image from the ''Digital Publishing Toolkit'', pg 97)]]<br />
<br />
We began by catching up on our projects, recording notes in a pad:<br />
<br />
[[File:pls-workshop-04.png|500px]]<br />
<br />
We then exported the pad to a plain text format by running [[curl]] in a terminal:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
curl https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4/export/txt -o pls-meeting-4.md<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
This exports the file in plain text, from which we can use Markdown and CSS to make a PDF with [[Pandoc|pandoc]]'s weasyprint pdf rendering engine:<br />
<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"><br />
pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c stylesheet.css -s pls-meeting-4.md -o pls-meeting-4.pdf<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
<br />
[[File:Workshop_04.md.pdf]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2655Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:33:52Z<p>Simon: /* First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour */</p>
<hr />
<div><div class="wrapper"><br />
<br />
<div id="left-coverbox"><br />
Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
<br />
Participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
<br />
''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
<br />
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
<br />
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
<br />
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
<br />
== Programme ==<br />
<br />
The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
<br />
* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
=== October 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 1: First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
<br />
Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 2: Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
<br />
=== November 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 3: Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 4: Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
<br />
=== December, 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 5: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
<br />
=== January, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
<br />
=== February, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
<br />
=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2654Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:33:39Z<p>Simon: /* Introducing digital library types and setup */</p>
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Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
<br />
Participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
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<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
<br />
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
<br />
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
<br />
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
<br />
== Programme ==<br />
<br />
The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
<br />
* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
=== October 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
<br />
Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 2: Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
<br />
=== November 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 3: Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 4: Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
<br />
=== December, 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 5: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
<br />
=== January, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
<br />
=== February, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
<br />
=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2653Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:33:25Z<p>Simon: /* Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts */</p>
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<div><div class="wrapper"><br />
<br />
<div id="left-coverbox"><br />
Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
<br />
Participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
<br />
[[File:SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_RGB.jpg|100px]]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div id="right-coverbox">[[File: pls_wiki_cards.png|700px]]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
<br />
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
<br />
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
<br />
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
<br />
== Programme ==<br />
<br />
The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
<br />
* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
=== October 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
<br />
Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
<br />
==== Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
<br />
=== November 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 3: Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 4: Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
<br />
=== December, 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 5: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
<br />
=== January, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
<br />
=== February, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
<br />
=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2652Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:33:14Z<p>Simon: /* Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion */</p>
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Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
<br />
Participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
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Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
<br />
''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
<br />
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
<br />
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
<br />
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
<br />
== Programme ==<br />
<br />
The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
<br />
* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
=== October 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
<br />
Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
<br />
==== Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
<br />
=== November 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 4: Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
<br />
=== December, 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 5: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
<br />
=== January, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
<br />
=== February, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
<br />
=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2651Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:33:03Z<p>Simon: /* Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing */</p>
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Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
<br />
Participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
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<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
<br />
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
<br />
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
<br />
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
<br />
== Programme ==<br />
<br />
The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
<br />
* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
=== October 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
<br />
Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
<br />
==== Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
<br />
=== November 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
<br />
==== Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
<br />
=== December, 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 5: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
<br />
=== January, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
<br />
=== February, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
<br />
=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2650Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:32:53Z<p>Simon: /* Workshop 6. Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: No Annotation is Alone */</p>
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<div><div class="wrapper"><br />
<br />
<div id="left-coverbox"><br />
Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
<br />
Participants:<br />
<br />
*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
<br />
Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
<br />
[[File:SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_RGB.jpg|100px]]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div id="right-coverbox">[[File: pls_wiki_cards.png|700px]]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
<br />
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
<br />
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
<br />
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
<br />
== Programme ==<br />
<br />
The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
<br />
* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
<br />
== Schedule ==<br />
<br />
=== October 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
<br />
Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
<br />
==== Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
<br />
=== November 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
<br />
==== Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
<br />
=== December, 2021 ===<br />
<br />
==== Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
<br />
=== January, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
<br />
=== February, 2022 ===<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
<br />
=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
<br />
==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
<br />
Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
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==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
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At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Parallel_Library_Services_Wiki&diff=2649Parallel Library Services Wiki2022-05-12T09:32:42Z<p>Simon: /* Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: No Annotation is Alone */</p>
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Welcome to the [https://pls.simonbrowne.biz Parallel Library Services] wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.<br />
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Participants:<br />
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*[[Simon Browne|Simon Browne]]<br><br />
*[[User:Toof|Kriston Chen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Ageliki|Angeliki Diakrousi]]<br><br />
*[[User:Gg|Mateus Domingos]]<br><br />
*[[User:FLIP KIOSK|Philippa Driest]]<br><br />
*[[User:Britt|Britt Grootes]]<br><br />
*[[User:Amy G|Amy Gowen]]<br><br />
*[[User:Mncmncmnc|Maxwell Neely-Cohen]]<br><br />
*[[User:MariavanderTogt|Maria van der Togt]]<br><br />
*[[User:Vie|Sylvie Van Wijk]]<br />
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Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
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''Parallel Library Services'' is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.<br />
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It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.<br />
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It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.<br />
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How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?<br />
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== Programme ==<br />
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The programme of workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:<br />
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* engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution<br />
* collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries<br />
* support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections<br />
* collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions<br />
* connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians<br />
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== Schedule ==<br />
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=== October 2021 ===<br />
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==== First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour ====<br />
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Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1<br><br />
Documentation: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
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==== Introducing digital library types and setup ====<br />
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At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST<br><br />
Guest: Luke Murphy ([[Bibliotecha]], [[Varia]])<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2<br><br />
Documentation: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
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=== November 2021 ===<br />
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==== Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts ==== <br />
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At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3<br><br />
Documentation: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
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==== Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion ====<br />
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At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4<br><br />
Documentation: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
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=== December, 2021 ===<br />
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==== Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing ====<br />
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At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/ <br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5<br><br />
Documentation: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
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=== January, 2022 ===<br />
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==== Workshop 6. Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: ''No Annotation is Alone'' ====<br />
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Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6<br><br />
Documentation: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
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=== February, 2022 ===<br />
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==== Workshop 7: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
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Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-7<br />
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==== Workshop 8: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
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Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 16th February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-8<br />
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==== Workshop 9: Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows ====<br />
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Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Guests: David Benqué (https://davidbenque.com/, https://diagram.institute/, https://cryptpad.fr/)<br><br />
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-meeting-9<br><br />
Documentation: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]<br />
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=== March, 2022 ===<br />
==== Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
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Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10<br />
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==== Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out ====<br />
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Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out<br><br />
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11<br />
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==== Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief ====<br />
<br />
At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices<br><br />
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET<br><br />
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=Workshops&diff=2648Workshops2022-05-12T09:32:13Z<p>Simon: </p>
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<div>Workshop 1: [[First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour]]<br />
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Workshop 2: [[Introducing digital library types and setup]]<br />
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Workshop 3: [[Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion]]<br />
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Workshop 4: [[Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts]]<br />
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Workshop 5: [[Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing]]<br />
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Workshop 7: [[WordMord: No Annotation is Alone|Annotation tools & strategies, WordMord: No Annotation is Alone]]<br />
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Workshop 9: [[Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows]]</div>Simonhttps://pls.simonbrowne.biz/index.php?title=File:Temp-index-print-party-03.jpg&diff=2647File:Temp-index-print-party-03.jpg2022-05-12T09:30:44Z<p>Simon: </p>
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Temporary Indexing is a web application that makes PDFs of catalogue cards from [[Calibre]]-produced metadata.<br />
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It is activated in print parties, where readers gather to print, share cards and connect each other's collections.<br />
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Temporary Indexing is a web application that makes PDFs of catalogue cards from [[Calibre]]-produced metadata.<br />
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It is activated in print parties, where readers gather to print, share cards and connect each other's collections.<br />
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