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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| Guests: {{{guests detail}}} |
Context
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".
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: