Autonomous Archive/algorithm

algorithmically curated publication

An algorithmically curated publication, populated by the documents from the Autonomous Archive.

Or in other words, a publication:

• that looks at the Poortgebouw archive from the inside
• accompanies the hand-curated publication
• its materials are selected by scripts
• its composition is accomplished via scripts and templates
• one version, multiple versions, or multiple non-repeating versions can exist

Practicals

• Format: Poster
  • size?
  • color? BW?
  • 1 or 2 sides?
  • 1 version, multiple versions, or multiple non-repeating versions?
  • printing technique
  • 200 copies
  • budget: 169€

• Materials
  • what materials: Images? PDFs? Texts (image captions mainly)?
  • according to what: year? semantic properties? Random
  • extra information: captions/metadata, file-info, context ?

• Composition:
  • what form it will take: collage, time-line, facsimile, graph?
  • what elements will be featured?
  • how will they be organized?

• Documentation of the process:

Scaning Utils

Repository: https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/scan-utils

Software dependencies:

• scanning software
  • linux: sane,xsane
• Mac/Widows Canon Lide 120 drivers
• pdftk (Mac/Windows installer )
• imagemagick (Mac: brew install imagemagick)
• Git (Mac: brew install git)

Download them with git:

git clone https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/scan-utils.git

imgs2pdf.sh

• Converts a directory of images onto a single PDF
• Usage:

  ./imgs2pdf.sh imgs-dir-name pdf-filename

• Note1: imgs-dir must be inside the scan-utils.git directory.
• Note2: If no pdf-filename is provided, output.pdf will the default file name

rotate.sh

• Rotates all images in one a directory a given number of degrees
• Usage:

  ./rotate.sh imgs-dir-name rotation-in-degrees