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|date detail= 27th October, 2021 | |date detail= 27th October, 2021 |
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Location: At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) and online |
Date: 27th October, 2021 |
Time: 16:00-19:00 CEST |
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2 |
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Context
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.
Activities
With Luke we discussed a few different options for hosting 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.
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.