Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion
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| Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion |
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| Location: At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online |
| Date: November 24th, 2021 |
| Time: 16:00-19:00 CET |
| Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4 |
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Context
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. Calibre is an open-source ebook manager and is also well-known as "the swiss army knife of document conversion". In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as Pandoc, ExifTool and of course, Calibre.
Activities
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:
- a tour of Calibre
- hybrid publishing workflows
- embedding metadata in PDFs
- making digital files (EPUB, PDF with pandoc)
- converting between file formats in Calibre
Our workshop was documented on a pad in Markdown, from which we made a PDF: